AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1124MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M +164%

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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GeForce GTX 950M

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Mar 2015

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

850 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

640

20

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

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544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

GM107

Sun LE

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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