GeForce GTX 880M vs GeForce GTX 950 LP

GeForce GTX 880M
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 12 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 880M
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 LP
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    106%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 880M

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

47 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 880M .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 6% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950 LP

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 950 LP
GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GX-A2)vsGM206 (GM206-251-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size294 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors3,540 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1536vs768
Compute Units8vs6
Core clock954 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 950 LP
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 880MGeForce GTX 950 LP
TDP122 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2014vs14 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    30.53 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    122.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    160.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    2930.70 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 880M
    7980
  • GeForce GTX 950 LP
    8490

Points (higher is better)

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