NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 624.85 significantly less expensive

$ 879.85

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

2494 points

140% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

52 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

41 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

36 FPS

21 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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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

4376 points

130% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

367.38 points

198% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15998 points

29848 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

15163 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

33463 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

41306 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

15163 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

34611 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

38178 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1126 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1216 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

83% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

77.82 Gigapixels/s

104% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

155.6 Gigatexels/s

172% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

4.98 TFLOPS

172% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

2048

166% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

166% 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

261st of 586

177th 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 980 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 980 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly 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 980 also has a slightly 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce GTX 980 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980 at 165 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950.