AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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AMD Radeon HD 6290 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 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

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power +1657%

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

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GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Mar 2016

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1026 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

-

80

Shading Units

768

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

5.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

104.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cedar

GPU Name

GM206

Cedar LE

GPU Variant

GM206-251-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

59 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

19W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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