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GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R7 260X - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon R7 260X
3282

GeForce GTX 950

Radeon R7 260X


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

GPU code name
GM206
Bonaire

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 x16

Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1 x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1000 MHz

Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-

CUDA cores
768
-

Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
1,971 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,080 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
896

Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
115 Watt

Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
61.60

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
-

Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
104 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x 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® 12

CUDA
+
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
2.0

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
6.4
6.3

Vulkan
1.1.126
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

DDMA audio
-
+

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
-
1

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

HD3D
-
-

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-