ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2009
Jan 2016
Generation
Evergreen
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
—
937 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1203 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
1024MB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
18
—
Shading Units
1440
1024
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
38.50 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
76.99 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
2.464 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
76.99 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cypress
GM206S
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
950 OEM
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.154 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
334 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
151W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
450 W
200 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.3
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
CUDA
—
5.2
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.