GeForce GTX 950 vs Geforce GTX 760

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Geforce GTX 760, which has a clock frequency of 980 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1502 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1152 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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
Geforce GTX 760		5923 points
	Difference: 613 (10%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 760		13 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 3 (30%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Geforce GTX 760		170 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (89%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Geforce GTX 760 should perform much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		192256 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 86528 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 760 should be much (more or less 91%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 760		94080 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 44928 (91%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Geforce GTX 760, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 760		31360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1408 (4%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.