NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2015
Sep 2009
Generation
GeForce 900
Evergreen
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1024 MHz
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Boost Clock
1188 MHz
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Memory Clock
1653 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
768
1600
TMUs
48
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
2.720 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
Cypress
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Cypress XT(215-0735033)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
90W
188W
Suggested PSU
250 W
450 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,903
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
396
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.