NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1124MHz vs 850MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950A +164%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

VS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Sun

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Sun LE

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

56 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

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