GeForce GTX 590 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 950, which has a core clock frequency of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1652 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 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 590		6680 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 144 (2%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 590		365 Watts
	Difference: 275 Watts (306%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 590 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		328320 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 222592 (211%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 590 should be much (more or less 58%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		77696 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 28544 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 590 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 590		58272 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 25504 (78%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

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