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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950 comes with a GPU clock speed of 1024 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory is set to run at 1652 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 768 SPUs, 48 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 560, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1175 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 560 80 Watts
GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be a bit better than the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Difference: 8960 (8%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 will be quite a bit (more or less 53%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

Radeon RX 560 75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 26048 (53%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the Radeon RX 560, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560 18800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 13968 (74%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 950 Radeon RX 560
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year August 2015 May 2017
Code Name GM206 Baffin
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1024 MHz 1175 MHz
Memory Speed 6608 MHz 7000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 90 watts 80 watts
Bandwidth 105728 MB/sec 114688 MB/sec
Texel Rate 49152 Mtexels/sec 75200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32768 Mpixels/sec 18800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 768 1024
Texture Mapping Units 48 64
Render Output Units 32 16
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2940 million 3000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 950

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