NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 10 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (1515MHz vs 1124MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (896.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
9856 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile
+2109%
31.8 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
1.439 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce 50 Mobile
Generation
GeForce 900M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
990 MHz
Base Clock
993 MHz
1515 MHz
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
896.0GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
-
10496
Shading Units
640
328
TMUs
40
112
ROPs
16
328
Tensor Cores
-
82
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
64 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
169.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.98 GPixel/s
496.9 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
31.80 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
31.80 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
496.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.96 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
75W
550 W
Suggested PSU
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
GB203
GPU Name
GM107
GN22-X11-A1
GPU Variant
N16P-GT
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Maxwell
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
45.6 billion
Transistors
1.87 billion
378 mm²
Die Size
148 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
5.0
6.8
Shader Model
5.1
