GeForce GTX 950 Low Power: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 950 Low Power sales 1 March 2016 at a recommended price of $159 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Maxwell 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.65 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 105.8 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 202 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 950 Low Power: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM206
Market segmentDesktop
Release date1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$159 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 950 Low Power's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 950 Low Power's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores768of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed1026 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed1190 MHzof 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors2,940 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate57.12of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power1.828 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs32of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs48of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 950 Low Power and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length202 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 950 Low Power: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed1653 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth105.8 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 950 Low Power. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950 Low Power, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.4
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.1.126
CUDA5.2

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 950 Low Power. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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