GeForce GTX 950 Overview

GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Core Configuration

GPU GM206
Architecture Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 768 : 48 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1572.90 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 128 bit
Memory Speed 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 105.80 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
    999%
  • Geforce GTX TITAN Xp
    871%
  • GeForce RTX 2080
    815%
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
    804%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    789%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    760%
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    629%
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
    628%
  • GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
    585%
  • Radeon RX Vega 56
    539%
  • GeForce GTX 1070
    519%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    471%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    414%
  • Radeon RX 580
    386%
  • Radeon R9 390X
    380%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    370%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    370%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    366%
  • GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps
    355%
  • Radeon RX 480
    346%
  • Radeon RX 570
    346%
  • Radeon RX 470
    301%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    283%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    279%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    267%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    240%
  • Radeon R9 285
    177%
  • GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
    177%
  • Radeon R9 380
    152%
  • Radeon RX 460
    138%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    133%
  • GeForce GTX 1050
    131%
  • Radeon R9 370
    104%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    100%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The GeForce GTX 950 is a graphics card released by Nvidia on 20 Aug 2015. The graphics card houses the GM206 die, based on the Nvidia_Maxwell_2_0 architecture which packs 2,940 million transistors on a 28 nm, 228 mm2 die.

GeForce GTX 950 pros and cons

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

GeForce GTX 950Radeon R9 370
GeForce GTX 950Radeon R9 370
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Shader units7681280
ROPs3232
Graphics processorGM206Trinidad
Process size28 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective)
Memory bus width128 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth105.80 Gb/s179.20 Gb/s
Release date20 Aug 20155 May 2015

Benchmarks

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • Radeon R9 370
    30
  • GeForce GTX 950
    28

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • Radeon R9 370
    20
  • GeForce GTX 950
    19

FPS (higher is better)

Rise Of The Tomb Raider

  • GeForce GTX 950
    5
  • Radeon R9 370
    5

FPS (higher is better)

Ashes Of The Singularity

  • GeForce GTX 950
    14

FPS (higher is better)