NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 485M 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 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1124MHz
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
+62%
1.439 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 485M
0.883 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Jan 2011
GeForce 900M
Generation
GeForce 400M
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
750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
640
Shading Units
384
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.200 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
883.2 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
73.60 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
GF104
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
N12E-GTX-A1
Maxwell
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
2.1
5.1
Shader Model
5.1
