NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 144.00 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

2457 points

136% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

47 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

40 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

31 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

33 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

377.89 points

207% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

34034 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

14587 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

36416 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

37241 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

14587 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

36494 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

35697 points

115% 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

1709 MHz

43% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

6 GiB

200% significantly more memory

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

82.03 Gigapixels/s

115% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

136.7 Gigatexels/s

139% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

4.04 TFLOPS

121% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1280

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% 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

180th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2016 July

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 6GB benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 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 6GB also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB has significantly more memory with 6 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 slightly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB is better than the GeForce GTX 950.