GeForce GTX 950M and HD Graphics 520 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950M vs HD Graphics 520
GeForce GTX 950M
2663
HD Graphics 520
856
GeForce GTX 950M
HD Graphics 520
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Gen. 9 Skylake (2015−2016)
GPU code name
N16P-GT
Skylake GT2
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x1
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1050 MHz
Core clock speed
914 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
189 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
24
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
44.96
25.20
Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
32 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
32 or 80 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
Quick Sync
-
+