NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and ATI Radeon HD 5830 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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

ATI Radeon HD 5830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 49% higher boost clock speed: 1188 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 49.2 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Around 2% better floating-point performance: 1,825 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
Around 94% lower typical power consumption: 90 Watt vs 175 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5339 vs 1735
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 644 vs 403

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 August 2015 vs 25 February 2010
Core clock speed	1024 MHz vs 800 MHz
Boost clock speed	1188 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	49.2 billion / sec vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,825 gflops vs 1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	5339 vs 1735
PassMark - G2D Mark	644 vs 403

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Around 46% higher pipelines: 1120 vs 768
666.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s

Pipelines	1120 vs 768
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

5339

1735

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

644

403

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950	ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark	5339	1735
PassMark - G2D Mark	644	403
Geekbench - OpenCL	16110
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	60.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	758.865
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.279
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	29.738
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	231.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6803
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3697
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1871	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM206	Cypress
Launch date	20 August 2015	25 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$159
Place in performance rating	535	531
Price now	$194.44
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	30.06
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1188 MHz	800 MHz
Core clock speed	1024 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	768
Floating-point performance	1,825 gflops	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	768	1120
Texture fill rate	49.2 billion / sec	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	90 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	2,940 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	7.938" (20.2 cm)	282 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	350 Watt
SLI options	2x
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pins	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	105.6 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.6 GB/s	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround
AMD Eyefinity