GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 2070, which features GPU clock speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 SPUs, 144 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

GeForce RTX 2070		22282 points
GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
	Difference: 15746 (241%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 353024 (334%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be a lot (approximately 313%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 153888 (313%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a lot (approximately 175%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 950, and also will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 57472 (175%)

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 moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per 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 - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.