NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W6170M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M 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 7 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
FirePro W6170M
+36%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Aug 2014
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
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
-
-
-
640
Shading Units
896
40
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Emerald
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
Emerald XT GL
(216-0857001)
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.5
