NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (90W vs 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +8%

1.971 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950 +26%

1869

Radeon R7 260X

1476

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Bonaire

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

115W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

5

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

6

AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

7

AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

9

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI FirePro V3900

10

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM

Related News

1

Intel Arrow Lake-S Features Dual Direct M.2 Slots: One PCIe 5.0 x4 and One PCIe 4.0 x4

2

AMD Ryzen 9000X3D Series to Feature Fully Unlocked Overclocking; DDR5-6400: The 'Sweet Spot' for Zen 5 Memory Speeds

3

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

4

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

5

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

6

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

7

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

8

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

9

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

10

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience