NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3850 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 9 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

320 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +287%

1.439 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

0.371 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 3850

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900M

Generation

M8x

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

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.280 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

371.2 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.24 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

M88

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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