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Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M
- 993 MHz
- 4 GB DDR3
7.1 Out of 10
by Jarred-Walton (Apr, 2013)Besides the above slide, NVIDIA provided some performance estimates using results from the 3DMark 11 Performance benchmark, and the results are even more heavily in favor of NVIDIA.
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Released March, 2015
Nvidia GeForce 940M
- 1.1 GHz
- 2 GB DDR3
6.7 Out of 10
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 950M vs 940M among Laptop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 7.1 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Significantly better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 22,237 | vs | 11,920 | More than 85% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Better PassMark score | 1,807 | vs | 952 | Around 90% better PassMark score | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 14,227 | vs | 6,942.5 | More than 2x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 4,444 | vs | 2,427 | Around 85% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 102.9 fps | vs | 53.8 fps | More than 90% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 12.7 | vs | 7.15 | Around 80% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate | 12.7 fps | vs | 7.15 fps | Around 80% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Slightly better floating-point performance | 1,271 GFLOPS | vs | 823.3 GFLOPS | Around 55% better floating-point performance | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 15.89 GPixel/s | vs | 8.58 GPixel/s | More than 85% higher pixel rate | |||
| Better T-Rex score | 2.54 frames/s | vs | 1.31 frames/s | Around 95% better T-Rex score | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 8 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 29.6 fps | vs | 14.43 fps | More than 2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,373 | vs | 769 | Around 80% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
| More shading units | 640 | vs | 384 | 256 more shading units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 40 | vs | 24 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,072 MHz | vs | 993 MHz | Around 10% higher clock speed | |||
| Lower TDP | 33W | vs | 75W | 2.3x lower TDP | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 950M vs 940M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
Ocean surface simulation Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
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