GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs GTX 980 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking256not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.42no data
Power efficiency7.42no data
ArchitectureMaxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code nameGM204GM107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date21 September 2015 (9 years ago)13 March 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$395.82 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores2048640
Core clock speed1064 MHz993 MHz
Boost clock speed1216 MHz1124 MHz
Number of transistors5,200 million1,870 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100-200 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate136.244.96
Floating-point processing power4.358 TFLOPS1.439 TFLOPS
ROPs6416
TMUs12840

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 sizelargeno data
Bus supportPCI Express 3.0no data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)MXM-B (3.0)
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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount4 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed7.0 GB/s900 MHz
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s28.8 GB/s
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 ConnectorsDual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2No outputs
Multi monitor support4 displaysno data
VGA аnalog display support+no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support+no data
HDMI+-
HDCP+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
G-SYNC support+-
Audio input for HDMIInternalno data

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+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.1.126
CUDA+5.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 September 2015 13 March 2015
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 980 Mobile has an age advantage of 6 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

GTX 950M Mac Edition, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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