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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 370 2G

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950 uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1652 MHz on this specific model. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 370 2G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1400 MHz on this model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 950 6536 points
Radeon R7 370 2G 5582 points
Difference: 954 (17%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G 15 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950 10 Mh/s
Difference: 5 (50%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 2G 210 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950 155 Sol/s
Difference: 55 (35%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
Radeon R7 370 2G 110 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (22%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon R7 370 2G should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Difference: 73472 (69%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 2G should be much (approximately 27%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 2G 62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13248 (27%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon R7 370 2G, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 370 2G 31200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1568 (5%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 950 Radeon R7 370 2G
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2015 June 2015
Code Name GM206 Trinidad
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1024 MHz 975 MHz
Memory Speed 6608 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 110 watts
Bandwidth 105728 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49152 Mtexels/sec 62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32768 Mpixels/sec 31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 1024
Texture Mapping Units 48 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2940 million 2080 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 950

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Radeon R7 370 2G

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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