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GeForce GTX 295 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

The GeForce GTX 295 features core clock speeds of 576 MHz on the GPU, and 999 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 28 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the GeForce GTX 950, which features a core clock speed of 1024 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1652 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
GeForce GTX 295 289 Watts
Difference: 199 Watts (221%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 295 should be 112% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950 overall, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 223776 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Difference: 118048 (112%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 is quite a bit (approximately 88%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295 92160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 43008 (88%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 295, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 295 32256 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 512 (2%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 295 GeForce GTX 950
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year January 8, 2009 August 2015
Code Name G200b GM206
Memory 896 MB (x2) 2048 MB
Core Speed 576 MHz (x2) 1024 MHz
Memory Speed 1998 MHz (x2) 6608 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 289 watts 90 watts
Bandwidth 223776 MB/sec 105728 MB/sec
Texel Rate 92160 Mtexels/sec 49152 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32256 Mpixels/sec 32768 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 (x2) 768
Texture Mapping Units 80 (x2) 48
Render Output Units 28 (x2) 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit (x2) 128-bit
Fab Process 55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1400 million 2940 million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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