NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +33%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

Radeon HD 6870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

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

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Granville

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Granville XT (216-0769024)

Maxwell

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

166 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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