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Radeon HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 950M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 4870 vs GeForce GTX 950M

Radeon HD 4870
1411
GeForce GTX 950M
2663

Radeon HD 4870

GeForce GTX 950M


Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
RV770
N16P-GT

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
June 2008
March 2015

Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
-
1124 MHz

Core clock speed
750 MHz
914 MHz

CUDA cores
-
640

Floating-point performance
1,200.0 gflops
1,439 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
956 million
1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
640

Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt

Texture fill rate
30.00
44.96

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 or GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
1000 or 2500 MHz

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

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
No outputs

VGA аnalog display support
-
+

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+

HDMI
-
+

DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
1.1
1.2

OpenGL
3.3
4.5

Shader Model
4.1
5.1

Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

BatteryBoost
-
+

GameStream
-
+

GameWorks
-
+

GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+

GPU Boost
-
2.0

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

Optimus
-
+