GeForce GTX 950M and GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950M
GeForce GTS 450 Rev. 2
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
N16P-GT
GF116
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
March 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
914 MHz
783 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
192
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
106 Watt
Texture fill rate
44.96
25.06
Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
3608 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 or 80 GB/s
57.73 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-