NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1695MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +985%

15.62 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 900M

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1395 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

4608

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

AD106

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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