GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 270
Summary
GeForce GTX 950M
100%
Radeon R9 270
177%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M |
| 75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 270 |
| Around 77% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 270
The Radeon R9 270 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GT) | vs | Curacao (Curacao PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 1280 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 20 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon R9 270 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 150 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 13 Nov 2013 |
GeForce GTX 950M
15.89 GP/s
Radeon R9 270
28.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
39.70 GT/s
Radeon R9 270
72.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
28.80 GB/s
Radeon R9 270
179.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
1271.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 270
2304.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
4410
Radeon R9 270
7820
Points (higher is better)