GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2070, which has core clock speeds of 1410 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 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

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GTX 950 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 is quite a bit (approximately 313%) more effective at anisotropic 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 will be quite a bit (about 175%) faster with regards to FSAA than the GeForce GTX 950, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.