Product Compare
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2015 | May 2013 |
| Generation | GeForce 900M | Solar System |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 993 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1124 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 900 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 4GB |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 28.80GB/s | 153.6GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Shading Units | 640 | 1280 |
| TMUs | 40 | 80 |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 64 KB (per SMM) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 17.98 GPixel/s | 28.80 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 44.96 GTexel/s | 72.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1439 GFLOPS | 2.304 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 44.96 GFLOPS | 144.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | GM107 | Neptune |
| GPU Variant | N16P-GT | Neptune XT(216-0847000) |
| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 1.87 billion | 2.8 billion |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 75W | 100W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 5.0 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |