NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R5

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R5, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R5

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 45.99

$ 209.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

917% significantly better overall score

102 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4869 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

255% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5160 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5213 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5075 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

412% significantly higher core clock speed

200 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

32% slightly higher boost clock speed

900 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

15 W

499% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

1153% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

370% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

200% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

503rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2017 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

4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R5 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly 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. In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon R5 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950 is better than the Radeon R5.