GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM206
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
160
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
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
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-