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GeForce GTX 950M and Radeon RX 540 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon RX 540

GeForce GTX 950M
2663
Radeon RX 540
2872

GeForce GTX 950M

Radeon RX 540


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name
N16P-GT
Polaris 12

Market segment
Laptop
Laptop

Release date
March 2015
March 2017

Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
1219 MHz

Core clock speed
914 MHz
-

CUDA cores
640
-

Floating-point performance
1,439 gflops
1,248 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm

Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,500 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
512

Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
44.96
39.01

Memory type
DDR3 or GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
1000 or 2500 MHz
6000 MHz

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

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs

VGA аnalog display support
+
-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-

HDMI
+
-

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0

CUDA
+
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.6

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
-

Ansel
+
-

BatteryBoost
+
-

FreeSync
-
+

GameStream
+
-

GameWorks
+
-

GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-

GPU Boost
2.0
-

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

Optimus
+
-