GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 8770 OEM |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 8770 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) | vs | Bonaire (Bonaire XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | vs | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,940 million | vs | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 768 | vs | 896 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 1024 MHz | vs | 1050 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 8770 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950 | | Radeon HD 8770 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 90 watts | vs | 85 watts |
| Release Date | 20 Aug 2015 | vs | 2 Sep 2013 |
GeForce GTX 950
32.80 GP/s
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
16.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
49.20 GT/s
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
58.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
105.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
96.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950
1572.90 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
1882.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better