GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Summary
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti XT2) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 768 | vs | 2048 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 32 |
| Core clock | 1024 MHz | vs | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 128 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 90 watts | vs | 300 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Aug 2015 | vs | 22 Jun 2012 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA,EP3 Gator Bait
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11, Max Details, 16:1 AF, 2xMSAA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)
DX11,Max Details, 16:1 HQ-AF, +AA
FPS (higher is better)