GeForce GTX 950 LP vs Radeon HD 7950 Boost

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7950 Boost
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    107%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Boost .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7950 Boost

Around 7% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7950 Boost

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Boost

The Radeon HD 7950 Boost is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 7950 Boost
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti PRO2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders768vs1792
Compute Units6vs28
Core clock1024 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 7950 Boost
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon HD 7950 Boost
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    95.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    240.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    3046.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • Radeon HD 7950 Boost
    9130

Points (higher is better)