AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1190 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	26 Oct 2017 vs 1 March 2016
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1190 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Around 50% higher pipelines: 768 vs 512

Pipelines	768 vs 512

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1429

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Maxwell 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GM206
Launch date	26 Oct 2017	1 March 2016
Place in performance rating	949	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$159
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1200 MHz	1190 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	512	768
Core clock speed		1026 MHz
Floating-point performance		1,828 gflops
Texture fill rate		57.12 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Transistor count		2,940 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL		4.6
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		202 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		105.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		6612 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5