GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 5870
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition |
| 113 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5870 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 5870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GT) | vs | Cypress (Cypress XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 334 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 2,154 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 1600 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 914 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 5870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 5870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 188 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 23 Sep 2009 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)