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    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      426%
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 326% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

    75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile .
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    The GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    GPU NameGP104 ()vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders2560vs640
    Compute Units20vs5
    Core clock1556 MHzvs914 MHz
    ROPs64vs16
    TMUs160vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1251 MHz
    10008 MHz effective    		vs1000 MHz
    4000 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileGeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    TDP150 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      99.60 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      14.62 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      249.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      36.60 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      320.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      64.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      7967.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      1169.90 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      18790
    • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
      4410

    Points (higher is better)

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