GeForce GTX 950A vs GeForce GTX 560

GeForce GTX 950A
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950A
GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    110%
  • GeForce GTX 560
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950A

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 10% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 560

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950A

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950A

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 560
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGF114 (GF114-325-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders640vs336
Compute Units5vs7
Core clock914 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 560
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 560
TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs17 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    14.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    36.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    1169.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    4410
  • GeForce GTX 560
    3980

Points (higher is better)