Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 950

Radeon RX 560
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 560
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 560

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 950
GPU NameBaffin (Baffin XT)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors3,000 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1024vs768
Compute Units16vs6
Core clock1090 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs64vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 560GeForce GTX 950
TDP75 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2017vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    19.20 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 560
    76.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 560
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 560
    2457.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better