AMD Radeon R9 M485X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

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AMD Radeon R9 M485X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 M485X and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M485X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M485X +105%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950M

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M485X

VS

GeForce GTX 950M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

Crystal System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM107

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

250W

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

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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