AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2015
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 900A
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1001 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
32.03GB/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