GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon RX 6500 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon RX 6500 XT
9825
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon RX 6500 XT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GM206
Navi 24
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
January 2022
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
2815 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
2610 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
5,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
107 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
180.2
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
143.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
+
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.6
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.3
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-