GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 4860

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon HD 4860
Memory: 512Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 4860

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    220%
  • Radeon HD 4860
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4860 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 120% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 4860

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4860
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsRV790 (RV790 GT)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs959 million
Shaders640vs640
Compute Units5vs8
Core clock993 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4860
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs750 MHz
3000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4860
TDP75 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs9 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    11.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    22.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4860
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4860
    896.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • Radeon HD 4860
    2000

Points (higher is better)