NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon 530

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon 530 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points
408% significantly better overall score
204 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS
12 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points
161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
6960 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
8039 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
6343 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points
136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
7006 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz
16% slightly higher boost clock speed
1024 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
100% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s
120% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s
363% significantly higher pixel rate
8.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s
131% significantly higher texture rate
24.58 Gigatexels/s

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
300% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586
432nd of 586

Family

The product line

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Radeon 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2017 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon 530 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card is better than the Radeon 530 in our tests.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon 530 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 950 is faster than the Radeon 530.

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