NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1468MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +422%

7.516 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 950M +170%

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 950M

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GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

1290 MHz

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

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SM Count

20

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

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Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

234.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

117.4 GFLOPS

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.516 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

234.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GP104

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

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Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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