GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 465

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 465
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 May 2010
GeForce GTX 465
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    118%
  • GeForce GTX 465
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 465 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 18% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 465

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950M Mac EditionGeForce GTX 465
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsGF100 (GF100-030-A3)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs529 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs3,100 million
Shaders640vs352
Compute Units5vs11
Core clock914 MHzvs608 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs44

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950M Mac EditionGeForce GTX 465
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
vs802 MHz
3208 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950M Mac EditionGeForce GTX 465
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs31 May 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    14.62 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    13.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    36.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    26.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    64.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 465
    103.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    1169.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 465
    855.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
    4410
  • GeForce GTX 465
    3730

Points (higher is better)