NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6850

GPU Specs Compare

G

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

NVIDIA 2015-03
G

AMD Radeon HD 6850

AMD 2010-10

Graphics Card

Release Date
Mar 2015
Oct 2010
Generation
GeForce 900M
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
993 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1124 MHz
-
Memory Clock
900 MHz
1000 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
4GB
1024MB
Memory Type
DDR3
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
128.0GB/s

Render Config

Shading Units
640
960
TMUs
40
48
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SMM)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
12

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.98 GPixel/s
24.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
44.96 GTexel/s
37.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1439 GFLOPS
1488 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.96 GFLOPS
-

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GM107
Barts
GPU Variant
N16P-GT
Barts PRO(215-0798006)
Architecture
Maxwell
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
1.87 billion
1.7 billion
Die Size
148 mm²
255 mm²

Board Design

TDP
75W
127W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Suggested PSU
-
300 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
N/A
CUDA
5.0
-
Shader Model
5.1
5.0