NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 560

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 149.39

$ 105.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points

25% slightly better overall score

825 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

18 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

18 FPS

3 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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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1833 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

130.09 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

21032 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points

21086 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points

19493 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points

23476 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

20226 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

23100 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

1175 MHz

14% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1275 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

Identical

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s

112 GB/s

5% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

80 W

12% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

86% significantly higher pixel rate

20.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

81.6 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS

2.61 TFLOPS

43% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

1024

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586

275th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 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

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 560 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 950 beats the Radeon RX 560 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 560 has a slightly 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 Radeon RX 560 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, the Radeon RX 560 has significantly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon RX 560 has a slightly lower TDP at 80 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 950 is faster than the Radeon RX 560.