GeForce GT 610 vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 610
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 610

61 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 .
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 1472% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

The GeForce GTX 950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 610GeForce GTX 950
GPU NameGF119 (GF119-300-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size79 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors292 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders48vs768
Compute Units1vs6
Core clock810 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs4vs32
TMUs8vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 610GeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 610GeForce GTX 950
TDP29 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date2 Apr 2012vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 610
    540
  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490

Points (higher is better)