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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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