
GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon Vega 8 Efficient - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
GM206
Raven
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2015
April 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
1100 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
512
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
35.20
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
128 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
105.6 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)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-