GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon HD 6970 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon HD 6970
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Cayman
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
December 2010
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
880 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
2,703.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,640 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
550 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
84.48
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-