NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1188MHz vs 930MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +91%

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Dec 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

900 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

-

768

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.88 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

65W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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