GeForce GTX 850M vs GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850M |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N15P-GT-A1) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 914 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 850M | | GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 45 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2014 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)