NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 380X +117%

3.973 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Radeon R9 380X +63%

3050

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon R9 380X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Nov 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

Pirate 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

1425 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

182.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.04 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

124.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.973 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.973 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

248.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

190W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Antigua

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Antigua XT (215-0877016)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

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

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