GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 4890
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M |
| 115 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 4890 . |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 HD 4890 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 4890 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N16P-GT) | vs | RV790 (RV790 XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 282 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 959 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 800 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 993 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 4890 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 975 MHz
3900 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 4096 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 950M | | Radeon HD 4890 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 190 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Mar 2015 | vs | 2 Apr 2009 |
GeForce GTX 950M
15.89 GP/s
Radeon HD 4890
13.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
39.70 GT/s
Radeon HD 4890
34.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
28.80 GB/s
Radeon HD 4890
125.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 950M
1271.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 4890
1360.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better