Your Graphics Research
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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | GeForce GTX 950M 2GB | Radeon HD 7950M |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 205% | 223% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 179% | 195% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 170% | 186% |
| FIFA 21 | 54% | 63% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 330% | 354% |
| Hitman 3 | 297% | 320% |
| Genshin Impact | 205% | 223% |
| Far Cry 6 | 342% | 367% |
| World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | 338% | 363% |
| Watch Dogs Legion | 195% | 211% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M 2GB are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon HD 7950M.
The GTX 950M has a 214 MHz higher core clock speed and 32 more Texture Mapping Units than the Radeon HD 7950M. This results in the GTX 950M providing 31 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The GTX 950M has a 214 MHz higher core clock speed than the Radeon HD 7950M, but the Radeon HD 7950M has 16 more Render Output Units than the GTX 950M. As a result, the Radeon HD 7950M exhibits a 7.8 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the GTX 950M. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The GTX 950M was released over a year more recently than the Radeon HD 7950M, and so the GTX 950M is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the Radeon HD 7950M.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB and the Radeon HD 7950M have the same amount of video memory, but are likely to provide slightly different experiences when displaying game textures at high resolutions.
The Radeon HD 7950M has 48 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 950M, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon HD 7950M is noticeably better than the GTX 950M.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB has 640 Shader Processing Units and the Radeon HD 7950M has 1280. However, the actual shader performance of the GTX 950M is 858 and the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 7950M is 762. The GTX 950M having 96 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the Radeon HD 7950M performs better when taking into account other relevant data.
The GeForce GTX 950M 2GB requires 50 Watts to run and the Radeon HD 7950M requires 75 Watts. The Radeon HD 7950M requires 25 Watts more than the GTX 950M to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Radeon HD 7950M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GTX 950M.
| Core Speed | 914 MHz |  | vs | 700 MHz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clock | 993 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | Maxwell GM107-N16P-GT | GCN 1.0 Wimbledon PRO | |||
| OC Potential | Good |
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vs | None | |
| Driver Support | Great |
| vs | Good | |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2015 | | vs | 01 May 2012 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 9.9
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vs | 9.7
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| 1600x900 | 7.8
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vs | 7.6
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| 1920x1080 | 6
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vs | 5.9
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| 2560x1440 | 4.3
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vs | 3.8
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| 3840x2160 | 2.6
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vs | 2.5
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| Memory | 2048 MB | | vs | | 2048 MB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz | | vs | 1000 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 128 Bit | vs | | 256 Bit | |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | | vs | | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 80GB/sec | vs | | 128GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 2048 KB | |
vs | 512 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 640 | vs | | 1280 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | 41% | | vs | 37% | |
| Technology | 28nm | | vs | | 28nm |
| Texture Mapping Units | 40 | | vs | 8 | |
| Texture Rate | 36.6 GTexel/s | | vs | 5.6 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | 16 | vs | | 32 | |
| Pixel Rate | 14.6 GPixel/s | vs | | 22.4 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 4096x2160 | | vs | | 4096x2160 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 50 Watts | | vs | 75 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 12.0 | | vs | | 12.0 |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | | 5.0 |
| Open GL | 4.5 | | vs | 4.4 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i5-4340M 2.9GHz | | vs | Intel Core i7-3610QM 4-Core 2.3GHz | |
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| Recommended RAM | 8 GB | | vs | | 8 GB |
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1920x1080 | | vs | | 1920x1080 |
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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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. | Overview Radeon HD 7950M was supposed to be a High-End Mobile Graphics Card. However, it was never produced and never made it out of the paper. Performance Had it been released, its rumored specifications would put its performance on average with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 675M. | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||