In the gpu comparison between the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC and the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.
Quick comparison
In FP32 performance, the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 281 % faster than the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950.
The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is based on the AMD Radeon RX 590 and has 2304 texture shaders and 36 execution units.
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, which has 768 shaders and 6 execution units.
Memory
Memory
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Memory Size
8 GB
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.000 GHz
1.653 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
6.6 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
106 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
128 bit
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The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR5 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 256 GB/s.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 can access 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 106 GB/s.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.051 GHz
Boost Clock
1.565 GHz
1.228 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
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1.19 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC clocks in the base with up to 1.469 GHz. The base frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 is 1.051 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
TDP
220 W
90 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
95 °C
PCIe-Power
2 x 8-Pin
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The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 220 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 has a TDP of 90 W and is supplied with the required energy via -- PCIe power connectors.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Fan-Type
Axial
Axial
Fan 1
2 x 100 mm
1 x 90 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC has a total of 2 Axial fans.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.
Connectivity
Connectivity
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
1x DP 1.2
DVI
1
2
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In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 supports a maximum of 4 screens.
Featureset
Featureset
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.
The maximum resolution of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 is 4096x2160 pixels.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
No
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
No
AV1
No
No
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The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.
Dimensions
Dimensions
MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950
Length
278 mm
181 mm
Height
143 mm
119 mm
Width
40 mm
27 mm
Width (Slots)
2 Slots
2 Slots
Weight
873 g
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SFF-Ready
No
No
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The MSI Radeon RX 590 Armor 8G OC is 278 mm long, 143 mm high and 40 mm wide.
The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 950 is 181 mm long, 119 mm high and 27 mm wide.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
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.
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.
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