Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5
vs
GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is based on the AMD Radeon RX 570 (GCN 4) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 224 GB/s.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (Maxwell 2.0) and has 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 106 GB/s.

GPU

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 has the Polaris 20 XL graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper is based on the graphics chip GM206-250-A1, which comes from the Maxwell 2.0 architecture.
Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 GPU GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper
AMD Radeon RX 570 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Polaris 20 XL GPU Chip GM206-250-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Maxwell 2.0
32 Streaming Multiprocessors 6
2048 Shader 768
32 Render Output Units 32
128 Texture Units 48
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 clocks at 1.750 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 7.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper is 6.6 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.653 GHz.

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

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.168 GHz Base Clock 1.140 GHz
1.244 GHz Boost Clock 1.329 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 195 W.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper has 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 90 W.

195 W TDP 90 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 100 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

With the Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper is 4096x2160 pixels.

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 3 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3 x 16 Lanes interface.

260 mm Length 244 mm
135 mm Height 124 mm
43 mm Width 42 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 570 8G G5 has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q3/2017.

The GALAX GeForce GTX 950 Black OC Sniper came on the market in Q3/2015 and will have a structure width of 28 nanometers manufactured.

11266-01 Part-no --
Q3/2017 Release date Q3/2015
169 $ Launch Price 179 $
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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