GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1124MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M
1439
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
+38%
1997
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
Crystal System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
850 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1365 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
174.7GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
640
Shading Units
1024
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
62.40 GTexel/s
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.997 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
124.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
80W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Pitcairn
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.1