AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe 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 E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1219MHz vs 1124MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition +15%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM107

E9170

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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