GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 480

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 480, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1120 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 6813 (104%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
GeForce GTX 950		10 Mh/s
	Difference: 17 (170%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
GeForce GTX 950		155 Sol/s
	Difference: 125 (81%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon RX 480		150 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (67%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 480 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 156416 (148%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 should be a lot (more or less 228%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 112128 (228%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 480 is superior to the GeForce GTX 950, but only just. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3072 (9%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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