NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM and AMD Radeon R7 M260X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

AMD Radeon R7 M260X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Around 49% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 620 MHz
Around 33% higher boost clock speed: 950 MHz vs 715 MHz
3.5x more texture fill rate: 60.8 GTexel / s vs 17.16 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
3.5x better floating-point performance: 1,946 gflops vs 549.1 gflops
5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Core clock speed	924 MHz vs 620 MHz
Boost clock speed	950 MHz vs 715 MHz
Texture fill rate	60.8 GTexel / s vs 17.16 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops vs 549.1 gflops
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M260X

2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M260X

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM	AMD Radeon R7 M260X
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 - G3D Mark		1001
PassMark - G2D Mark		163
Geekbench - OpenCL		5753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1775
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1893
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1775
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3158
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM	AMD Radeon R7 M260X
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GM206	Opal
Launch date	1 January 2016	6 December 2015
Place in performance rating	1209	1210
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	950 MHz	715 MHz
Core clock speed	924 MHz	620 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,946 gflops	549.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1024	384
Texture fill rate	60.8 GTexel / s	17.16 GTexel / s
Transistor count	2,940 million	1,040 million
Compute units		6
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
Bus support		PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Mantle
OpenCL		2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.19 GB / s	64 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
DualGraphics
FreeSync
HD3D
PCIe 3.0
PowerTune
Switchable graphics
Zero Core
ZeroCore