AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro 580 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1200MHz vs 1124MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +284%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

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GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

993 MHz

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

640

144

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM107

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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