GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon R9 M270X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R9 M270X
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon R9 M270X
1240
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon R9 M270X
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Venus
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
March 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
775 MHz
Compute units
-
10
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
725 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
1,536 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
640
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
31.00
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
1125 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
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
Eyefinity
-
1
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
-
+