GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 4890

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon HD 4890
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2009
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4890
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsRV790 (RV790 XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs55 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs282 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs959 million
Shaders640vs800
Compute Units5vs10
Core clock993 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4890
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs975 MHz
3900 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 4890
TDP75 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs2 Apr 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 4890
    125.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 4890
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better