NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 34.00 slightly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

2058 points

98% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

42 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

33 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

27 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

29 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

284.61 points

131% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

31922 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

13527 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

33958 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

33939 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

13527 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

33375 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

32433 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1506 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1708 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

81% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

33% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

115% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

115% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

3.94 TFLOPS

115% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1152

49% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2016 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

4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 1060 3GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB over the GeForce GTX 950.