NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +29%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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