Radeon RX 5500M vs GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated396
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.69
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameGM107Navi 14
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date13 March 2015 (10 years ago)7 October 2019 (5 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 cores6401408
Core clock speed993 MHz1375 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1645 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million6,400 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt85 Watt
Texture fill rate44.96144.8
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPS4.632 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4088
L1 Cache320 KBno data
L2 Cache2 MB2 MB

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x8
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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s224.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-
Resizable BAR-+

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 support

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 7 October 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 85 Watt

GTX 950M Mac Edition has 13.3% lower power consumption.

RX 5500M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and Radeon RX 5500M. We've got no test results to judge.

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