GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition vs Radeon R7 250X
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 9% 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 Radeon R7 250X |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition
The GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GT) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 914 MHz | vs | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 13 Feb 2014 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)