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GeForce GTX 950M and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce GTX 950M
2663
Radeon R5 230
228

GeForce GTX 950M

Radeon R5 230


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name
N16P-GT
Caicos

Market segment
Laptop
Desktop

Release date
March 2015
April 2014

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-

Core clock speed
914 MHz
-

CUDA cores
640
-

Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
200.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
1,870 million
370 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
160

Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
19 Watt

Texture fill rate
44.96
5.000

Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
DDR3

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
-

Memory bandwidth
32 or 80 GB/s
10.67 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Eyefinity
-
1

VGA аnalog display support
+
-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
-

DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11

CUDA
+
-

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.4

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
-

Ansel
+
-

AppAcceleration
-
-

BatteryBoost
+
-

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
-

Enduro
-
-

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-

HD3D
-
-

Optimus
+
-

​PowerPlay
-
+

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-