GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Jun 2012
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    127%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    133%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

210 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970 GHz Edition

33% higher gaming 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7970 GHz Edition

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (8 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU NameGM206 (GM206-250-A1)vsTahiti (Tahiti XT2)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders768vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock1024 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs48vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
TDP90 wattsvs300 watts
Release Date20 Aug 2015vs22 Jun 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    128.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    288.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    4096.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    10830

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 950
    32
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    45
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    64

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    27
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    32

FPS (higher is better)

Battlefield Hardline

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait

  • GeForce GTX 950
    22
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    41
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    45

FPS (higher is better)

Grand Theft Auto V

DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    31
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    46

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    20
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    26

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA

  • GeForce GTX 950
    11
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    16

FPS (higher is better)