Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 950A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking605not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.30no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM107Amethyst
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (10 years ago)5 May 2015 (10 years ago)

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 cores6402048
Core clock speed993 MHz909 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate44.96116.4
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPS3.723 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs40128

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1001 MHz1365 MHz
Memory bandwidth32.03 GB/s174.7 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 5 May 2015
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 250 Watt

GTX 950A has 233.3% lower power consumption.

R9 M395X Mac Edition, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 month, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950A and Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

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