NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8790M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8790M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8790M 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 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1124MHz vs 900MHz)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8790M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +108%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8790M

0.691 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8790M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.200 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

21.60 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

691.2 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Mars

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Mars M2 XTX (216-0842036)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

77 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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