NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (1190MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +114%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970 +70%

305

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

179

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 970 +75%

77

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

44

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2016

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

1664

Shading Units

768

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

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3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GM206

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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