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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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Front view of GeForce GTX 960M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon HD 8950M

Reasons to consider the
AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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More shading units 896 vs 640 256 more shading units
More texture mapping units 56 vs 40 16 more texture mapping units
Front view of GeForce GTX 960M

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M

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Significantly higher clock speed 1,097 MHz vs 700 MHz More than 55% higher clock speed
Higher effective memory clock speed 5,012 MHz vs 4,000 MHz More than 25% higher effective memory clock speed
Slightly higher pixel rate 17.55 GPixel/s vs 11.2 GPixel/s More than 55% higher pixel rate
Higher memory clock speed 1,253 MHz vs 1,000 MHz More than 25% higher memory clock speed

Features Key features of the Radeon HD 8950M  vs GeForce GTX 960M 

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

Radeon HD 8950M
64 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960M
80.2 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 960M
17.55 GPixel/s

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

Radeon HD 8950M
39.2 GTexel/s
GeForce GTX 960M
43.9 GTexel/s

floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers

Radeon HD 8950M
1,254 GFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960M
1,404.2 GFLOPS

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

Radeon HD 8950M
896
GeForce GTX 960M
640

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

Radeon HD 8950M
56
GeForce GTX 960M
40

Specifications Full list of technical specs

gpu

 Radeon HD 8950M  vs
GeForce GTX 960M 
GPU brand AMD Nvidia
GPU name Saturn GM107
Market Laptop Laptop
Clock speed 700 MHz 1,097 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 17.55 GPixel/s
Texture rate 39.2 GTexel/s 43.9 GTexel/s
Floating-point performance 1,254 GFLOPS 1,404.2 GFLOPS

memory

 Radeon HD 8950M  vs
GeForce GTX 960M 
Memory clock speed 1,000 MHz 1,253 MHz
Effective memory clock speed 4,000 MHz 5,012 MHz
Memory bus 128 bit 128 bit
Memory 2,048 MB 2,048 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bandwidth 64 GB/s 80.2 GB/s

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