GeForce GTX 970M vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    116%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

Around 16% 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GeForce GTX 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders1280vs768
Compute Units10vs6
Core clock1038 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MGeForce GTX 950
TDP0 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860
  • GeForce GTX 950
    8490

Points (higher is better)