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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jun 2010 Mar 2015
Generation Evergreen GeForce 900M
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1195 MHz 900 MHz
Base Clock 993 MHz
Boost Clock 1124 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 1024MB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 DDR3
Memory Bus 256bit 128bit
Bandwidth 153.0GB/s 28.80GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1600 640
TMUs 80 40
ROPs 32 16
L1 Cache 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 17.98 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 44.96 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.720 TFLOPS 1439 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) 544.0 GFLOPS 44.96 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Cypress GM107
GPU Variant Cypress XT(215-0735033) N16P-GT
Architecture TeraScale 2 Maxwell
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.154 billion 1.87 billion
Die Size 334 mm² 148 mm²
Board Design
TDP 228W 75W
Suggested PSU 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan N/A 1.3
Shader Model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 5.0