NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Aug 2015
Sep 2014
Generation
GeForce 900
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1024 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
768
1664
TMUs
48
104
ROPs
32
56
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM206
GM204
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.94 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
228 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
90W
148W
Suggested PSU
250 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
5.2
5.2
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
1,903
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
396
1,683
OctaneBench
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77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
-
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
-
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
-
40
Blender
-
305