GeForce GTX 950 LP vs Radeon R7 260X

GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    135%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 35% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 260X

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 260X
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-251-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders768vs896
Compute Units6vs14
Core clock1024 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs48vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 LPRadeon R7 260X
TDP75 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)