NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M AMD Radeon HD 8730M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8730M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 61% (1124MHz vs 700MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M +167%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8730M

0.537 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

Radeon HD 8730M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

700 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.600 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

537.6 GFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Mars

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Mars S3 PRO (216-0842027)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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