GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition and GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 950M Mac Edition

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

GM107

GP106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

December 2017

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1124 MHz

1709 MHz

Core clock speed

993 MHz

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,271 gflops

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

16 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

4,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

44.96

136.7

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

5 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

160 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 MHz

8008 MHz

Memory bandwidth

28.8 GB/s

160.2 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

5.0

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.131