NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 late
Boost Clock1124MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
512 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
+284%
1.439 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280M
0.374 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Mar 2009
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 200M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-IV
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
-
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
950 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
60.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
16
640
Shading Units
128
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.360 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.44 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
374.5 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
75W
TDP
75W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
G92
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
N10E-GTX
Maxwell
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
324 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
