GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking586not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency27.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameVega RenoirGM206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

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 cores384768
Core clock speed400 MHz1026 MHz
Boost clock speed1500 MHz1190 MHz
Number of transistorsno data2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rateno data57.12
Floating-point processing powerno data1.828 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data48

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data202 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1653 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data105.8 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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.1.126
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 1 March 2016
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 75 Watt

RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 3 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and GeForce GTX 950 Low Power. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 950 Low Power is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power

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