Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce GTX 950 Low Power - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Mars XTX
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
March 2016
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1190 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1026 MHz
Floating-point performance
691.2 gflops
1,828 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
950 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
768
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
21.60
57.12
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
105.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126