NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +51%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GF114

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

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