NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 VS AMD Radeon R7 260X
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory768
Cores105.8 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 950
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory896
Cores104 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon R7 260X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GeForce GTX 950
$159 • Aug 2015
Radeon R7 260X
$139 • Oct 2013
AMD Radeon R7 260X
Specs Comparison
| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 | AMD Radeon R7 260X |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 90 W | 115 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1188 MHz | N/A |
| Memory Bandwidth | 105.8 GB/s | 104 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 28nm |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 2.0 |
| Shading Units | 768 | 896 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 48 | 56 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| Memory Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1653 MHz | 1625 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 38.02 GPixel/s | 17.6 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 105.8 GTexel/s | 104 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 1.825 GFLOPS | 1.971 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 1.00 MB | 0.25 MB |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 2940 Million | 2080 Million |
| Required PSU | 250 W | 300 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | 1x 6-pin |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12.1 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | N/A |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R7 260X
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R7 260X
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R7 260X
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Radeon R7 260X
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
AMD Radeon R7 260X
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
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