GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R9 370

GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    100%
  • Radeon R9 370
    176%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370

Around 76% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370

The Radeon R9 370 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R9 370
GPU NameGM107 (N16P-GT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1280
Compute Units5vs24
Core clock993 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R9 370
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950MRadeon R9 370
TDP75 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date13 Mar 2015vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410
  • Radeon R9 370
    7790

Points (higher is better)