GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 2070, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2070 should be a lot faster than 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 should be much (about 313%) better at AF 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 should be a lot (more or less 175%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 950, and 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.