AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2015
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
900 MHz
Base Clock
—
993 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1124 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
DDR3
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
28.80GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
—
Shading Units
768
640
TMUs
48
40
ROPs
16
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
44.96 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
1439 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
44.96 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GM107
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
N16P-GT
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
75W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
CUDA
—
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.