AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 8 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

2281 points

296% significantly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

36 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

286% significantly higher Blender score

101.04 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

383% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10170 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

497% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9069 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

366% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9820 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

506% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

993 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

19% slightly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s

788% significantly higher memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

75 W

146% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

138% significantly higher pixel rate

17.98 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

329% significantly higher texture rate

44.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

259% significantly more shading units

640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

259% 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

192nd of 586

314th 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 580 vs GeForce GTX 950M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950M in our tests.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 580 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 Radeon RX 580 also has a slightly 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 GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580 at 185 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580 over the GeForce GTX 950M.