GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    102%
  • Radeon HD 5870
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 5870
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders640vs1600
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock993 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 5870
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 5870
TDP75 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • Radeon HD 5870
    4290

Points (higher is better)