NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 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 Clock1124MHz
Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (174.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M295X Mac Edition
+141%
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Nov 2014
GeForce 900M
Generation
Crystal System
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
1362 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
174.3GB/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
27.20 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.482 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
217.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
250W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Amethyst
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
Amethyst XT
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
