NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A 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

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1124MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.7GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition +38%

1.997 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

VS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 900A

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.03GB/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

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