NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 470

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon RX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 +170%

4.94 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Radeon RX 470 +97%

3678

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 950

5

Radeon RX 470 +140%

12

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 950

20

Radeon RX 470 +25%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 470 +33%

40

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon RX 470

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

120W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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