AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2014
Mar 2016
Generation
Volcanic Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
1653 MHz
Base Clock
-
1026 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1190 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
128bit
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
-
Shading Units
2816
768
TMUs
176
48
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
38.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
GM206
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT(215-0852000)
GM206-251-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
580W
75W
Suggested PSU
950 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2