AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 30% (1203MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +34%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2016

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

1024

112

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GM206S

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

950 OEM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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