Quadro M1200 and Radeon HD 8950M - video card comparison
Quadro M1200
Radeon HD 8950M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
N17P-Q1
Saturn
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
January 2017
May 2013
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
1150 MHz
-
Core clock speed
991 MHz
1075 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,651 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1870 Million
2,080 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
768
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
43.72
51.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
5500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
88 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
12 (12_0)
CUDA
5.0
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
3D Stereo
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-