GeForce GTX 950 and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950 vs Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce GTX 950
5498
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce GTX 950
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
GM206
Mars XTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2015
November 2012
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Recommended system power (PSU)
350 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pins
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
768
-
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
384
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
49.2 billion/sec
21.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6.6 GB/s
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.6 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Multi monitor support
4 displays
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-