Tegra X1 vs GeForce GTX 950M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking559not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.21no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameGM107GM20B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 March 2015 (9 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores640256
Core clock speed914 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,870 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate44.9616.00
Floating-point processing power1.439 TFLOPS0.512 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4016

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8IGP
Widthno dataIGP
SLI options+-

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 typeDDR3 or GDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 or 2500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 or 80 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
VGA аnalog display support+no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support+no data
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream+-
GeForce ShadowPlay+-
GPU Boost2.0no data
GameWorks+-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+-
Optimus+-
BatteryBoost+-
Ansel+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.1.126-
CUDA+-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



GeekBench 5 Vulkan

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 Vulkan API by AMD & Khronos Group.

GTX 950M 6837
+341%
Tegra X1 1551

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

Tegra X1 has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 950M and Tegra X1. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 950M is a notebook card while Tegra X1 is a desktop one.


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