GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R7 250 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 250
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon R7 250
1100
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R7 250
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Oland XT
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
October 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
716.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
384
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
25.20
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
72 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
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
+
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-