Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2016 | May 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 900 | Solar System |
| Type | Desktop | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1026 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1190 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1653 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 128bit |
| Bandwidth | 105.8GB/s | 88.00GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 768 | 768 |
| TMUs | 48 | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 | 16 |
| L1 Cache | 48 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | 256 KB |
| Compute Units | 12 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 38.08 GPixel/s | 17.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 57.12 GTexel/s | 51.60 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.828 TFLOPS | 1.651 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 57.12 GFLOPS | 103.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM206 | Saturn |
| GPU Variant | GM206-251-A1 | Saturn XT |
| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.94 billion | 2.08 billion |
| Die Size | 228 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 75W | 100W |
| Suggested PSU | 250 W | |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.2 | |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 6.3 |