NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8400M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950A +5434%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce 8400M GS

0.026 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

VS

GeForce 8400M GS

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900A

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

16

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G86

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

NB8M-GS

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

11W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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