GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

GM206

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2016

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1190 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

1026 MHz

1469 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,828 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

2,940 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

57.12

222.5

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

8 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6612 MHz

8000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

256.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

5.2

OpenCL

1.2

2.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.131

FreeSync