AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1340MHz vs 1190MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +237%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

1.828 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2016

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1026 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

75W

450 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 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GM206

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GM206-251-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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