GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs 9800 GTX

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	896	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.10	no data
Power efficiency	0.99	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code name	G92	GM107
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	28 March 2008 (16 years ago)	13 March 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$299	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	128	640
Core clock speed	675 MHz	993 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1124 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	43.20	44.96
Floating-point processing power	0.4321 TFLOPS	1.439 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	64	40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	267 mm	no data
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	DDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	70.4 GB/s	28.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	HDTVDual Link DVI	No outputs
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	Via Adapter	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	4.0	5.1
OpenGL	2.1	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.1.126
CUDA	+	5.0

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	28 March 2008	13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	2 GB
Chip lithography	65 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	140 Watt	75 Watt

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