GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950, which has clock speeds of 1024 MHz on the GPU, and 1652 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 768 SPUs as well as 48 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 199 Watts (221%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 295, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 118048 (112%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be much (approximately 88%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 43008 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is a better choice, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 512 (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.

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output 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.