GeForce GTX 950A vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

GeForce GTX 950A
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950A
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Mar 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    102%
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950A

153 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5870 Eyefinity 6

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950ARadeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders640vs1600
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock914 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950ARadeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950ARadeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
TDP75 wattsvs228 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs11 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    14.62 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    36.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    64.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    1169.90 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950A
    4410
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    4290

Points (higher is better)