Radeon HD 8950M vs GeForce GTX 950M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M

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Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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Higher effective memory clock speed

4,000 MHz

1,800 MHz

Around 2.2x higher effective memory clock speed

Higher memory bandwidth

64 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Around 2.2x higher memory bandwidth

More shading units

896

640

256 more shading units

More texture mapping units

16 more texture mapping units

Higher memory clock speed

1,000 MHz

900 MHz

More than 10% higher memory clock speed

Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M

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Significantly higher clock speed

993 MHz

700 MHz

More than 40% higher clock speed

More memory

4,096 MB

2,048 MB

2x more memory

memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory

Radeon HD 8950M

64 GB/s

GeForce GTX 950M

28.8 GB/s

pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second

Radeon HD 8950M

11.2 GPixel/s

GeForce GTX 950M

15.89 GPixel/s

texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping

Radeon HD 8950M

39.2 GTexel/s

GeForce GTX 950M

39.7 GTexel/s

floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers

Radeon HD 8950M

1,254 GFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

1,271 GFLOPS

shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading

Radeon HD 8950M

896

GeForce GTX 950M

640

texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes

Radeon HD 8950M

GeForce GTX 950M

gpu	Radeon HD 8950M	GeForce GTX 950M
GPU brand	AMD	Nvidia
GPU name	Saturn	GM107
Market	Laptop	Laptop
Clock speed	700 MHz	993 MHz
Is dual GPU	No	No
Reference card	None	None
raw performance
Shading units	896	640
Texture mapping units	56	40
Render output processors	16	16
Pixel rate	11.2 GPixel/s	15.89 GPixel/s
Texture rate	39.2 GTexel/s	39.7 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance	1,254 GFLOPS	1,271 GFLOPS

memory	Radeon HD 8950M	GeForce GTX 950M
Memory clock speed	1,000 MHz	900 MHz
Effective memory clock speed	4,000 MHz	1,800 MHz
Memory bus	128 bit	128 bit
Memory	2,048 MB	4,096 MB
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	28.8 GB/s