Radeon RX 5600 XT vs GeForce GTX 950

Radeon RX 5600 XT
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon RX 5600 XT
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    325%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 5600 XT

225% higher gaming performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 5600 XT .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 5600 XT

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 5600 XT

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (3 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 5600 XTGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameNavi 12 (Navi 12 XT)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process7 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,940 million
Shaders2048vs768
Compute Units32vs6
Core clock1605 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs128vs48

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 5600 XTGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
12000 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 5600 XTGeForce GTX 950
TDP180 wattsvs90 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    121.90 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    243.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    288.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    7803.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Game benchmarks

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    95
  • GeForce GTX 950
    27

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    63
  • GeForce GTX 950
    20

FPS (higher is better)

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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

  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
    34
  • GeForce GTX 950
    11

FPS (higher is better)