AMD Radeon R9 285X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Boost Clock1190MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X +124%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Mar 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1026 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

75W

550 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

GM206

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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