AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon RX 470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1206MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +170%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470 +97%

3678

GeForce GTX 950

1862

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470 +140%

12

GeForce GTX 950

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470 +25%

25

GeForce GTX 950

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470 +33%

40

GeForce GTX 950

30

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Aug 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

211.2GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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