NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
592 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
+1033%
1.439 TFLOPS
GeForce 9700M GTS
0.127 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jul 2008
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 9M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
-
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
6
640
Shading Units
48
40
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.480 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.72 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
127.2 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
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-
-
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
G94
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
NB9E-GS
Maxwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
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
