AMD Radeon RX 560 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 560 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 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

825 points

43% significantly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

18 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.09 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

101.04 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

21086 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10170 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19493 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9069 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

20226 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23100 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1175 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

993 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1275 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

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

112 GB/s

288% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

75 W

6% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

81.6 Gigatexels/s

81% significantly higher texture rate

44.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024

60% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

60% 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

275th of 586

313th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

Radeon RX 560 vs GeForce GTX 950M benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 560 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950M in our tests.

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 boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950M has a slightly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 560 at 80 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 Radeon RX 560 is better than the GeForce GTX 950M.