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GeForce GTX 275 vs GeForce GTX 950

Intro

The GeForce GTX 275 has a clock speed of 633 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1134 MHz. It also uses a 448-bit bus, and uses a 55 nm design. It is made up of 240 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 28 ROPs.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 950, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1024 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1652 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 768 SPUs, 48 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 950 90 Watts
GeForce GTX 275 219 Watts
Difference: 129 Watts (143%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 275 will be 20% quicker than the GeForce GTX 950 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 127008 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 950 105728 MB/sec
Difference: 21280 (20%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 275 is a small bit (about 3%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 950. (explain)

GeForce GTX 275 50640 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 950 49152 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 1488 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950 is superior to the GeForce GTX 275, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950 32768 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 275 17724 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 15044 (85%)

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 275 GeForce GTX 950
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year April 9, 2009 August 2015
Code Name G200b GM206
Memory 896 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 633 MHz 1024 MHz
Memory Speed 2268 MHz 6608 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 219 watts 90 watts
Bandwidth 127008 MB/sec 105728 MB/sec
Texel Rate 50640 Mtexels/sec 49152 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 17724 Mpixels/sec 32768 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 240 768
Texture Mapping Units 80 48
Render Output Units 28 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 448-bit 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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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