NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 255.00
$ 169.97 significantly less expensive
$ 424.97

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1038 points
7241 points
597% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

22 FPS
147 FPS
125 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS
108 FPS
92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

15 FPS
131 FPS
116 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

13 FPS
62 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1900 points
12827 points
575% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points
1515.19 points
1131% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18233 points
102988 points
464% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

18345 points
70085 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7172 points
131084 points
1727% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points
100963 points
493% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points
114437 points
590% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz
2321 MHz
126% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz
2581 MHz
117% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB
12 GiB
499% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
192 Bit
49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

105.8 GB/s
384 GB/s
262% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W
155% significantly lower TDP
230 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s
165.2 Gigapixels/s
334% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s
413 Gigatexels/s
624% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

1.82 TFLOPS
13.21 TFLOPS
623% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768
2560
233% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

48
160
233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
64
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

261st of 586
64th of 586

Family

The product line

-
Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR6

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 RX 6700 XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6700 XT beats the GeForce GTX 950 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has a significantly 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 Radeon RX 6700 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 6700 XT has significantly more memory with 12 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 GeForce GTX 950 has a significantly lower TDP at 90 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT at 230 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6700 XT over the GeForce GTX 950.

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