Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce GTX 950M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce GTX 950M
2663
Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce GTX 950M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
N16P-GT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1124 MHz
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
914 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
44.96
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 or GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1000 or 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
32 or 80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
BatteryBoost
-
+
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
+
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-