NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 5% (1124MHz vs 1074MHz)
Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)
AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
1408 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470 Mobile
+205%
4.399 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 900M
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Base Clock
926 MHz
1124 MHz
Boost Clock
1074 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/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
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
34.37 GPixel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
137.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.399 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.399 TFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
274.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
85W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM107
GPU Name
Ellesmere
N16P-GT
GPU Variant
Ellesmere PRO
Maxwell
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.87 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
148 mm²
Die Size
232 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
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
