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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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5920 points

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

139% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

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

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 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.