NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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)

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +24%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

-

640

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

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

16.00 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Saturn

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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