Radeon RX 580 and GeForce GTX 950 LP - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
March 2016
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
1188 MHz
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
1024 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
1,825 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
768
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
57.02
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12.0
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
-