NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +284%

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

640

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G92

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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