NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
VS
AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
VS
AMD Cedar

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

242
Place in performance rating
not rated
13.60
Value for money (0-100)
no data
Maxwell
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GM206
Code name
Cedar
Desktop
Type
Desktop
20 August 2015 (6 years ago)
Release date
no data
$159
Launch price (MSRP)
no data
$181 (1.1x MSRP)
Price now
$17.81
24.57
Value for money
no data
GM206
GPU code name
Cedar
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

768
Pipelines
80
1024 MHz
Core clock speed
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1188 MHz
Boost Clock
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2,940 million
Transistor count
292 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
90 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
49.2 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
no data
1,825 gflops
Floating-point performance
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768
CUDA cores
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768
Pipelines / CUDA cores
80
1188 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
2,940 million
Number of transistors
292 million
90 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
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7.938" (20.2 cm)
Length
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1x 6-pins
Supplementary power connectors
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+
SLI options
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350 Watt
Recommended system power (PSU)
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PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
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4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
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2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
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128 Bit
Memory bus width
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6.6 GB/s
Memory clock speed
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105.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
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Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar, the size and number of monitors.

Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Display Connectors
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+
G-SYNC support
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4 displays
Multi monitor support
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+
HDCP
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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Internal
Audio input for HDMI
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+
HDMI
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Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar is the additional functionality.

+
3D Vision
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2.0
GPU Boost
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+
CUDA
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+
GeForce Experience
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+
Surround
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+
Adaptive Vertical Sync
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+
GameStream
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
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+
GameWorks
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.5
OpenGL
4.4
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
6.4
Shader Model
no data
1.2
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 and AMD Cedar graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Cedar good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Cedar
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Cedar
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Cedar
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Cedar
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
AMD Cedar
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

25.6% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (768 vs 80)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

G-SYNC support

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $181 (1.1x MSRP))

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or AMD Cedar?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 versus AMD Cedar performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
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