AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 RX Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1471MHz vs 1203MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +327%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

2.464 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56

VS

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Jan 2016

Vega

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

937 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1203 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

1024

224

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.50 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.99 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.464 TFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.99 GFLOPS

Board Design

210W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GM206S

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

950 OEM

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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

6.7

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