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Radeon R9 290X and GeForce GTX 950M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GTX 950M

Radeon R9 290X
7648
GeForce GTX 950M
2663

Radeon R9 290X

GeForce GTX 950M


Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Hawaii XT
N16P-GT

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
October 2013
March 2015

Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors
1 x 6-pin + 1 x 8-pin
-

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
947 MHz
1124 MHz

Core clock speed
-
914 MHz

CUDA cores
-
640

Floating-point performance
5,632 gflops
1,439 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
6,200 million
1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
640

Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
176.0
44.96

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 or GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
512 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
1000 or 2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
32 or 80 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
No outputs

Eyefinity
+
-

VGA аnalog display support
-
+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
+
-

DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.0
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
6.3
5.1

Vulkan
+
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

AppAcceleration
+
-

BatteryBoost
-
+

CrossFire
1
-

DDMA audio
+
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

HD3D
+
-

LiquidVR
1
-

Optimus
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
1
-

TrueAudio
+
-

UVD
+
-

ZeroCore
-
-