GeForce GTX 950 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 770, which has clock speeds of 1046 MHz on the GPU, and 1753 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 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 770		7854 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 1318 (20%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 770		14 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (40%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
Geforce GTX 770		70 Sol/s
	Difference: 85 (121%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (156%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 770 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 118656 (112%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be quite a bit (more or less 172%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84736 (172%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 770 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 704 (2%)

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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.