NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 570X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

AMD Radeon RX 570X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 570X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1244MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X +179%

5.095 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon RX 570X

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1168 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1244 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

39.81 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

159.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.095 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.095 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

318.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

Polaris 20

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

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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