AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1124MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +24%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce GTX 950M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

640

56

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

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

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1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM107

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

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

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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