NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon R9 270

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon R9 270 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R9 270

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 732.00 significantly less expensive

$ 987.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

28% slightly better overall score

807 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

12 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS

17 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

18% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1610 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

22331 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

22701 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

900 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

925 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

Identical

2 GiB

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

5190% significantly higher memory bandwidth

2 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

66% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

29.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

74 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.37 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1280

66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

280th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

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 R9 270 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 950 beats the Radeon R9 270 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: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, they both have the same amount of memory at 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon R9 270 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 950 is better than the Radeon R9 270.