GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon RX 570 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated375
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data8.75
Power efficiencyno data10.55
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameEllesmereGM206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date10 December 2017 (7 years ago)20 August 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599.99 $159

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2048768
Core clock speed926 MHz1024 MHz
Boost clock speed1206 MHz1188 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)85 Watt90 Watt
Texture fill rate154.457.02
Floating-point processing power4.94 TFLOPS1.825 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs12848

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Bus supportno dataPCI Express 3.0
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data202 mm
Heightno data4.376" (11.1 cm)
Widthno data2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)no data350 Watt
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin
SLI options-+

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1650 MHz6.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth211.2 GB/s105.6 GB/s
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 outputsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor supportno data4 displays
HDMI-+
HDCP-+
Maximum VGA resolutionno data2048x1536
G-SYNC support-+
Audio input for HDMIno dataInternal

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-
GameStream-+
GeForce ShadowPlay-+
GPU Boostno data2.0
GameWorks-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.4
OpenGL4.64.5
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 December 2017 20 August 2015
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 85 Watt 90 Watt

RX 570 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 5.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 570 Mobile and GeForce GTX 950. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 570 Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 950 is a desktop one.


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