GeForce GTX 950 LP vs Radeon HD 5970

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon HD 5970
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Nov 2009
Radeon HD 5970
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    114%
  • Radeon HD 5970
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

219 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5970 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 14% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5970

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950 LP

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 5970
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsHemlock (Hemlock XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders768vs1600
Compute Units6vs20
Core clock1024 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 5970
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit x2
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 5970
TDP75 wattsvs294 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs18 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    46.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    116.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5970
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5970
    4640.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • Radeon HD 5970
    7410

Points (higher is better)