Graphics card comparison
Radeon RX 560X vs GeForce GTX 950
AMD
Radeon RX 560X
4096 Mb GDDR5
Released 11 Apr 2018
DESKTOP
VS
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 950
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 20 Aug 2015
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 560X
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 950
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon RX 560X | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Polaris 21 (Polaris 21 XT
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<span title="Chip code">(215-0908004)</span>) | GM206 (GM206-250-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 1024 | 768 |
| Compute Units | 16 | 6 |
| Core clock | 1175 MHz | 1024 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| TMUs | 64 | 48 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon RX 560X | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | 1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 560X | GeForce GTX 950 |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | 90 watts |
| Release Date | 11 Apr 2018 | 20 Aug 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon RX 560X20.40 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 95032.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon RX 560X81.60 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 95049.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon RX 560X112.00 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 950105.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon RX 560X2611.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 9501572.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better