NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

AMD Radeon R9 M485X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X +105%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

VS

Radeon R9 M485X

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Crystal System

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

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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