NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E8860

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon E8860

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 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 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 80% (1124MHz vs 625MHz)

AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (37W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +79%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon E8860

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

37W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x VGA

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Venus

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Venus MCM

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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