Your Graphics Research
Your Graphics Research
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| Game | GeForce GTX 950M 2GB | FirePro M8900 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 205% | 547% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 179% | 492% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 170% | 472% |
| FIFA 21 | 54% | 226% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 330% | 810% |
| Far Cry 6 | 342% | 836% |
| Genshin Impact | 205% | 547% |
| Hitman 3 | 297% | 741% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 195% | 524% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 338% | 827% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M 2GB are massively better than the AMD FirePro M8900.
The GTX 950M was released over three years more recently than the FirePro M8900, and so the GTX 950M is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the FirePro M8900 when running the latest games.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB and the FirePro M8900 have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.
The FirePro M8900 has 35.2 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 950M, which means that the memory performance of the FirePro M8900 is noticeably better than the GTX 950M.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB has 640 Shader Processing Units and the FirePro M8900 has 960. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 950M is 858 and the actual shader performance of the FirePro M8900 is 424. The GTX 950M having 434 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the GTX 950M delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the FirePro M8900.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB requires 50 Watts to run and the FirePro M8900 requires 75 Watts. The FirePro M8900 requires 25 Watts more than the GTX 950M to run. The difference is not significant enough for the FirePro M8900 to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GTX 950M.
| Core Speed | 914 MHz |  | vs | 680 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 993 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Maxwell GM107-N16P-GT | Blackcomb XT | |||
| OC Potential | Good |
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| Driver Support | Great |
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| Release Date | 12 Mar 2015 | | vs | 12 Apr 2011 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| 1366x768 | 9.9
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| 1600x900 | 7.8
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| 1920x1080 | 6
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| 2560x1440 | 4.3
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| 3840x2160 | 2.6
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| Memory | 2048 MB | | vs | | N/A |
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| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz | | vs | 900 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 128 Bit | vs | | 256 Bit | |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | | vs | | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 80GB/sec | vs | | 115.2GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 2048 KB | |
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| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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| Shader Processing Units | 640 | vs | | 960 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 41% | | vs | 20% | |
| Technology | 28nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 40 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 36.6 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 16 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 14.6 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 4096x2160 | | vs | - | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
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| Max Power | 50 Watts | | vs | 75 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 12.0 | | vs | 11 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | | 5.0 |
| Open GL | 4.5 | | vs | 4.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | no | |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | no | |
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| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i5-4340M 2.9GHz | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 8 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1920x1080 | | - | ||
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| Mini Review | Overview GeForce GTX 950M 2GB is a Performance Mobile Graphics Card based on the first variant of the Maxwell architecture. Architecture The first variant of the Maxwell Architecture succeeds the Kepler Architecture. Despite being also manufactured with a 28nm technology, it has an extremely large L2 Cache which allows NVIDIA to produce Graphics Cards with relatively small memory data transfer rates, without causing too much impact on the overall performance. Furthermore, the Shaders have been redesigned and are both more powerful and energy efficient. GPU It equips a GPU codenamed GM107-N16P-GT which has 5 SM activated and thus offers 640 Shader Processing Units, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs. The central unit runs at 914MHz and goes up to 993MHz, in Turbo Mode. Memory The GPU accesses a 2GB frame buffer of fast GDDR5, through a 128-bit memory interface. The memory clock operates at 1253MHz. The size of the frame buffer is adequate. Features DirectX 12 Support (11.0 Hardware Default) and support for GameStream, G-SYNC, GPU Boost 2.0, GeForce Experience, PhysX and other technologies. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 50W, it may be equipped in average sized notebooks. Performance Because GeForce GTX 950M 2GB is just a higher clocked GeForce GTX 850M v2 2GB, its performance is only about 5% faster than its predecessors and so GeForce GTX 860M 2GB is still faster. Still, it still offers decent gaming at 1920x1080 and most modern games should run fluently at high settings. System Suggestions We recommend a strong processor (Intel Core i5 Mobile) and 8GB of RAM for a notebook with GeForce GTX 950M 2GB. | Professionals in the CAD (Computer Aided Design) and DCC (Digital Content Creation) industries need to be agile while being highly productive both in their office and on-the-go. AMD works with notebook vendors to provide workstation solutions to deliver advanced performance for applications across all industry segments. AMD FirePro™ professional graphics are compliant with the latest industry standards. Plus, AMD Catalyst™ professional graphics drivers are especially tuned to enable outstanding performance for many major CAD and DCC applications. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||