GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R7 265 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R7 265
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
February 2014
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
925 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
-
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
1,894 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
59.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
179.2 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
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
-
-