NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 255.00

$ 65.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

251% significantly better overall score

1038 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

22 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

43 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

16 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

15 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

13 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6047 points

218% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1900 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

354% significantly higher Blender score

122.99 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

45558 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

15998 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

7172 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

47750 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

18233 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53125 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

18345 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

18801 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

7172 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

16999 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

16578 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

1024 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

1188 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

300% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

142% significantly higher memory bandwidth

105.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

183% significantly higher pixel rate

38.02 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

254% significantly higher texture rate

57.02 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

254% significantly better floating point performance

1.82 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

150% significantly more shading units

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

261st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 950 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 1070 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1070 has significantly more memory with 8 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 950.