
GeForce GTX 950 and FirePro D300 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950
FirePro D300
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
August 2015
January 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
2,176 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
68.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
5080 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
162.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
4x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-