Radeon RX Vega 3 vs GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated779
Place by popularitynot in top-10085
Power efficiencyno data13.61
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code nameGM206SPicasso
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date2016 (8 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1024192
Core clock speed937 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1203 MHz1001 MHz
Number of transistors2,940 million4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate76.9912.01
Floating-point processing powerno data0.3844 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs6412

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed5 GB/sSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80.19 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.76.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.0
Vulkan1.31.2.131
CUDA5.2-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm

RX Vega 3 has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950 OEM and Radeon RX Vega 3. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 3 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 OEM
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
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