GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs Radeon R6 (Carrizo)

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking945not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code nameCarrizoGM206S
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)2016 (8 years ago)
Current priceno data$535

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3841024
Core clock speedno data937 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHz1203 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data76.99
Floating-point performanceno data1,946 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce GTX 950 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
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 data4 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data5 GB/s
Memory bandwidthno data80.19 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkanno data1.3
CUDAno data5.2

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and GeForce GTX 950 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 950 OEM is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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