GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 950, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1024 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1652 MHz on this particular card. It features 768 SPUs along with 48 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

GeForce GTX 950		6536 points
GeForce GTX 480		3650 points
	Difference: 2886 (79%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950		90 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (178%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 480 is 68% faster than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950		105728 MB/sec
	Difference: 71680 (68%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950 is a little bit (about 17%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950		49152 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7152 (17%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 480 is a better choice, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 950		32768 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 832 (3%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 are processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.