GeForce GTX 950 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 690, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1502 MHz on this specific card. 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 690		13111 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 6575 (101%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 210 Watts (233%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 278784 (264%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 should be quite a bit (about 377%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 185088 (377%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950, by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25792 (79%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.