NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD Radeon HD 6990M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M 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 8 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

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

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M +11%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

Radeon HD 6990M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

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

14

-

640

Shading Units

1120

40

TMUs

56

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

22.88 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

40.04 GTexel/s

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.602 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

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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