Radeon RX 480 and GeForce GTX 950M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 480 vs GeForce GTX 950M
Radeon RX 480
8883
GeForce GTX 950M
2663
Radeon RX 480
GeForce GTX 950M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris 10 Ellesmere
N16P-GT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
June 2016
March 2015
Bus support
n/a
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
Bridgeless CrossFire
1
-
Boost clock speed
1266 MHz
1124 MHz
Compute units
36
-
Core clock speed
1120 MHz
914 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
5,834 gflops
1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
640
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
182.3
44.96
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3 or GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1000 or 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
224 GB/s
32 or 80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
2.0
+
DisplayPort support
1.4HDR
-
DirectX
DirectX® 12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
n/a
-
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
n/a
-
BatteryBoost
-
+
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
n/a
-
FreeSync
+
-
FRTC
1
-
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
n/a
-
LiquidVR
1
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
+
-
TressFX
1
-
TrueAudio
n/a
-
UVD
+
-
VCE
+
-
ZeroCore
+
-