NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R7 M445

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 M445, 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
489% significantly better overall score
176 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS
18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
4 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
207% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5920 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points
217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5358 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz
31% slightly higher core clock speed
780 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz
29% slightly higher boost clock speed
920 MHz

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
230% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s
416% significantly higher pixel rate
7.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s
209% significantly higher texture rate
18.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
139% significantly more shading units
320

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
139% significantly more texture mapping units
20

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
449th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon R7 M445 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 950 beats the Radeon R7 M445 in gaming performance.

The GeForce GTX 950 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 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 950 over the Radeon R7 M445.

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