NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A400, 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

1048 points

1066 points

1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

23 FPS

28 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.99 points

430.09 points

249% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16999 points

23151 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16578 points

21816 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1024 MHz

40% slightly higher core clock speed

727 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1188 MHz

1762 MHz

48% significantly higher boost clock speed

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

10% slightly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

90 W

50 W

79% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.02 Gigapixels/s

34% slightly higher pixel rate

28.19 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

57.02 Gigatexels/s

34% slightly higher texture rate

42.29 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

768

Identical

768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

100% significantly 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

268th of 598

265th of 598

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 950 vs RTX A400 comparison

For gaming, the RTX A400 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 950 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. Despite this, the RTX A400 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the RTX A400 has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950 at 90 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 RTX A400 is better than the GeForce GTX 950.