ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

GPU Specs Compare

G

ATI Radeon HD 5850

AMD 2009-09
G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA 2015-08

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2009
Aug 2015
Generation
Evergreen
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1000 MHz
1653 MHz
Base Clock
-
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
1024MB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
105.8GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
18
-
Shading Units
1440
768
TMUs
72
48
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
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
52.20 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.088 TFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
417.6 GFLOPS
57.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Cypress
GM206
GPU Variant
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
GM206-250-A1
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
90W
Suggested PSU
450 W
250 W
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin

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
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
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1,903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
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396