NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD FirePro M8900

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD FirePro M8900

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M8900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

AMD FirePro M8900 's Advantages

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

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +10%

1.439 TFLOPS

FirePro M8900

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

FirePro M8900

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

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

21.76 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT GL

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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