NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 44.16GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 130W)

Score

GeForce GTX 950

VS

Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

690 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

44.16GB/s

Render Config

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

12

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.900 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.900 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

RV570

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.33 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

230 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

3.0

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