GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory runs at a speed of 1600 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 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

Radeon RX Vega 56		21011 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 14475 (221%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (133%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 313702 (297%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 is a lot (about 427%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 209792 (427%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be much (approximately 126%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41216 (126%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.