NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2016
Mar 2015
Generation
GeForce 900
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
937 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1203 MHz
925 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
80.19GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1024
1024
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.50 GPixel/s
29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
76.99 GTexel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.464 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.99 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206S
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
950 OEM
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
150W
Suggested PSU
200 W
450 W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.