GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon 9800 XXL - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon 9800 XXL
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
GM206
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
October 2003
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 8x
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
Floppy
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
390 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
-
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
3.120
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
676 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
21.63 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
9.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
2.0
Shader Model
6.4
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-