NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and ATI Radeon X700 PRO 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 2.4x more core clock speed: 1024 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • 14.5x more texture fill rate: 49.2 billion / sec vs 3.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
  • 70.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5337 vs 76
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 643 vs 302
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 20 August 2015 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed 1024 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate 49.2 billion / sec vs 3.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5337 vs 76
PassMark - G2D Mark 643 vs 302

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700 PRO

  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 90 Watt
  • 143.3x more memory clock speed: 860 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 90 Watt
Memory clock speed 860 MHz vs 6.6 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5337
76
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
643
302
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 ATI Radeon X700 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark 5337 76
PassMark - G2D Mark 643 302
Geekbench - OpenCL 16715
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 1862

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 ATI Radeon X700 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 R400
Code name GM206 RV410
Launch date 20 August 2015 1 September 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $159 $179
Place in performance rating 540 538
Price now $194.44
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 30.06

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1188 MHz
Core clock speed 1024 MHz 425 MHz
CUDA cores 768
Floating-point performance 1,825 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 768
Texture fill rate 49.2 billion / sec 3.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 90 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 2,940 million 120 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 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 7.938" (20.2 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
SLI options 2x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pins None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 105.6 GB / s 13.76 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 6.6 GB/s 860 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround