GPU Comparison

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

CORE STATE GM206

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1188 MHz

TDP 90 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2015

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1178 MHz

TDP 148 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

7,172

13,595

geekbench_opencl

16,740

28,528

geekbench_vulkan

16,734

31,001

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

369

passmark_directx_10

N/A

46

passmark_directx_11

N/A

71

passmark_directx_12

N/A

41

passmark_directx_9

N/A

143

passmark_g2d

N/A

764

passmark_g3d

N/A

9,638

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,073

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

GTX 950

GTX 970

Core Specs

Shading Units

768

1,664 +116.7%

Shaders

768

1,664 +116.7%

TMUs

48

104 +116.7%

ROPs

32

56 +75.0%

Clocks

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1178 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz 6.6 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

65.97 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

1.825 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

57.02 GFLOPS (1:32)

122.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

90 W

148 W

TDP (W)

90

148 +64.4%

Suggested PSU

250 W

300 W

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

GM206

GM204

Generation

GeForce 900

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

2,940 million

5,200 million

Die Size

228 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.9M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.4

1.4

OpenCL

3.0

3.0

CUDA

5.2

5.2

Shader Model

6.8

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

202 mm 8 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

159 USD

329 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

GeForce 700

GeForce 700

Successor

GeForce 10

GeForce 10

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