NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D 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 470D 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months 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)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +136%

4.322 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Oct 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

28

-

768

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

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

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 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 PROD

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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