GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition sales 13 March 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 1.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 28.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 75 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
Architecture | Maxwell (2014−2018) | |
GPU code name | GM107 | |
Market segment | Desktop | |
Release date | 13 March 2015 (9 years ago) | |
Current price | $149 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition'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) |
Core clock speed | 993 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 | 1,271 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
Width | MXM Module |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition: 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 | |
Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition. 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 |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
Shader Model | 5.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.6 | |
OpenCL | 1.2 | |
Vulkan | 1.1.126 | |
CUDA | 5.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition is Radeon HD 6850.
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