ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC
vs
MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.56 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.19 TFLOPS.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 has 768 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.25 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 1.93 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 6 execution units.
ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC GPU MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip GM206-250-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 6
2304 Shader 768
32 Render Output Units 32
144 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.000 GHz clocks.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.653GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 2 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 1.653 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 6.6 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 106 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC has a turbo clock of 1.560 GHz. The turbo frequency of the MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 is 1.253 GHz.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.076 GHz
1.560 GHz Boost Clock 1.253 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 is equipped with a PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 95 °C.

225 W TDP 90 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC are cooled with a Air cooling.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 85 mm Fan 1 1 x 80 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
Addressable LED LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC is 42 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 is 42 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

279 mm Length 170 mm
127 mm Height 111 mm
42 mm Width 38 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, ASRock Phantom Gaming U Radeon RX 590 8G OC was released in Q4/2018.

The MSI GeForce GTX 950 2GD5 OCV2 published in Q3/2016 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

PHANTOM GUR RX590 8G OC Part-no --
Q4/2018 Release date Q3/2016
279 $ Launch Price 149 $
14 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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