AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

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AMD Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +80%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

768

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GM206

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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