GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 6950

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon HD 6950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 Dec 2010
Radeon HD 6950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%
  • Radeon HD 6950
    129%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

125 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6950 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6950

Around 29% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6950

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6950

The Radeon HD 6950 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 6950
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsCayman (Cayman PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs40 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs389 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,640 million
Shaders640vs1408
Compute Units5vs22
Core clock993 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs88

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 6950
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon HD 6950
TDP75 wattsvs200 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs14 Dec 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    70.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6950
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6950
    2253.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • Radeon HD 6950
    5710

Points (higher is better)