GeForce GTX 950M vs GeForce GTX 980MX
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)
GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1178MHz vs 1124MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M
1439
GeForce GTX 980MX
+172%
3920
Blender
GeForce GTX 950M
101
GeForce GTX 980MX
+210%
314
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 950M
27
GeForce GTX 980MX
+137%
64
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jun 2016
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
640
Shading Units
1664
40
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
64
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
148W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GM204
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.0
CUDA
5.2
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
