NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 950M sales 12 March 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of DDR3 or GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 or 80 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 950M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	528
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Value for money	0.82
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name	N16P-GT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	12 March 2015 (9 years ago)
Current price	$797	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Technical specs

GeForce GTX 950M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 950M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
CUDA cores	640
Core clock speed	914 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	1,870 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	44.96	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	1,439 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 950M's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options	+

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 950M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory	-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 950M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	No outputs
VGA аnalog display support	+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	+
HDMI	+

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+
GeForce ShadowPlay	+
GPU Boost	2.0
GameWorks	+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+
Optimus	+
BatteryBoost	+
Ansel	+

API support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce GTX 950M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 950M 6.68

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

GTX 950M 2585

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 950M 15710

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 950M 4367

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 950M 3200

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

GTX 950M 21356

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

GTX 950M 9538

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

GTX 950M 198867

GeekBench 5 Vulkan

Benchmark coverage: 5%

GTX 950M 7440

GeekBench 5 CUDA

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 950M 9777

Unigine Heaven 3.0

This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark using Unigine, a 3D game engine by eponymous Russian company. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. Version 3.0 was released in 2012, and in 2013 it was superseded by Heaven 4.0, which introduced several slight improvements, including a newer version of Unigine.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 950M 42

Octane Render OctaneBench

This is a special benchmark measuring graphics card performance in OctaneRender, which is a realistic GPU rendering engine by OTOY Inc., available either as a standalone program, or as a plugin for 3DS Max, Cinema 4D and many other apps. It renders four different static scenes, then compares render times with a reference GPU which is currently GeForce GTX 980. This benchmark has nothing to do with gaming and is aimed at professional 3D graphics artists.

Benchmark coverage: 4%

GTX 950M 25

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce GTX 950M is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD	30
1440p	21
4K	16

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

10−12

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	23
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Battlefield 5	31
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12
Far Cry 5	23
Far Cry New Dawn	22
Forza Horizon 4	21−24
Hitman 3	16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	19
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−11

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	19
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Battlefield 5	26
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	18−20
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12
Far Cry 5	21
Far Cry New Dawn	20
Forza Horizon 4	21−24
Hitman 3	16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Metro Exodus	5
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	15
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	19
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−11

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	11
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	8−9
Battlefield 5	20
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12
Far Cry 5	19
Far Cry New Dawn	19
Forza Horizon 4	21−24
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	11
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−11

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−11
Hitman 3	10−12
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Metro Exodus	5−6
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3
Battlefield 5	6−7
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4
Far Cry 5	12
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9
Forza Horizon 4	10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5
Hitman 3	6−7
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9
Metro Exodus	1−2
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4
Battlefield 5	3−4
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2
Far Cry 5	6
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9
Forza Horizon 4	6−7
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2

Relative performance

Overall GeForce GTX 950M performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

GeForce GTX 675MX 106.14

Radeon RX 550 Mobile 103.59

GeForce GT 750M SLI 102.84

GeForce GTX 950M 100

GeForce GTX 470M SLI 99.1

GeForce GTX 850M 97.01

GeForce GTX 560M SLI 96.71

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 950M is Radeon RX 550 Mobile, which is faster by 4% and higher by 7 positions in our ranking.