ATI Radeon X740 XL 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 ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code nameGM107RV410
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (10 years ago)7 March 2005 (20 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 cores640no data
Core clock speed993 MHz425 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million120 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm110 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattno data
Texture fill rate44.963.400
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs408

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)PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
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 typeDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.8 GB/s14.4 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 outputs1x DVI, 1x VGA

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA5.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 March 2015 7 March 2005
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 110 nm

GTX 950M Mac Edition has an age advantage of 10 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 292.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and Radeon X740 XL. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition is a notebook graphics card while Radeon X740 XL is a desktop one.

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