AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +6%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM107

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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