GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R7 250X

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    109%
  • Radeon R7 250X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R7 250X
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders640vs640
Compute Units5vs10
Core clock993 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R7 250X
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R7 250X
TDP75 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • Radeon R7 250X
    4020

Points (higher is better)