NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM and AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
Around 11% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 830 MHz
Around 11% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 855 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 60.8 GTexel / s vs 17.1 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 1024 vs 320
3.6x better floating-point performance: 1,946 gflops vs 547.2 gflops
2.8x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Launch date	1 January 2016 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	924 MHz vs 830 MHz
Boost clock speed	950 MHz vs 855 MHz
Texture fill rate	60.8 GTexel / s vs 17.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 320
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops vs 547.2 gflops
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM	AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	56.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	917.535
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.351
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.323
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	86.304
PassMark - G2D Mark		184
PassMark - G3D Mark		521
Geekbench - OpenCL		5123

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM	AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM206	Hainan
Launch date	1 January 2016	5 May 2015
Place in performance rating	1175	1117
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz	855 MHz
Core clock speed	924 MHz	830 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops	547.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	320
Texture fill rate	60.8 GTexel / s	17.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	1,040 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		50 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3