NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 114.00 significantly less expensive

$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

2262 points

117% 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

35 FPS

19 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

28 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

3647 points

91% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

289.94 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

25908 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

13595 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

29153 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

34107 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

13595 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

29277 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

32348 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1050 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

0.85% slightly higher boost clock speed

1178 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

4 GiB

100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

112% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

61% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

65.97 Gigapixels/s

73% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

122.5 Gigatexels/s

114% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

3.92 TFLOPS

114% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1664

116% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104

116% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

193rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 September

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 950 vs GeForce GTX 970 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 970 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce GTX 950 has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 970 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the GeForce GTX 950.