NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M8900
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
+10%
1.439 TFLOPS
FirePro M8900
1.306 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Apr 2011
GeForce 900M
Generation
FirePro Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
-
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
640
Shading Units
960
40
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Blackcomb
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT GL
Maxwell
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
