
GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R7 M270 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M270
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon R7 M270
789
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R7 M270
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Opal XT / Mars
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2015
January 2014
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
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
825 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
633.6 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
-
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
19.80
Memory type
GDDR5
Not Listed
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
0 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
Not Listed
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
-
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
Not Listed
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
-
1
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
HD3D
-
+
PowerTune
-
+
Switchable graphics
-
1
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
+