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    GeForce GTX 950A vs GeForce GTX 560 OEM

    GeForce GTX 950A
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950A
    GeForce GTX 560 OEM
    Memory: 1280Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 29 Nov 2011
    GeForce GTX 560 OEM
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      110%
    • GeForce GTX 560 OEM
      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 OEM .
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 OEM
    GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGF110 ()
    Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs520 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvs3,000 million
    Shaders640vs384
    Compute Units5vs11
    Core clock914 MHzvs552 MHz
    ROPs16vs40
    TMUs40vs44

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 560 OEM
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width128 bitvs320 bit
    Memory Speed1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective    		vs802 MHz
    3208 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs1280 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 950AGeForce GTX 560 OEM
    TDP75 wattsvs150 watts
    Release Date13 Mar 2015vs29 Nov 2011

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      14.62 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 560 OEM
      12.10 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      36.60 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 560 OEM
      24.30 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

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

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      1169.90 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 560 OEM
      847.90 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 950A
      4410
    • GeForce GTX 560 OEM
      3980

    Points (higher is better)

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