NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon E8950

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 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

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1124MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +184%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

E8950

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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