Radeon RX 480 Mobile and GeForce GTX 950 - video card comparison
Radeon RX 480 Mobile
GeForce GTX 950
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Polaris
GM206
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
August 2016
August 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
-
350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1077 MHz
1188 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1024 MHz
CUDA cores
-
768
Floating-point performance
4,963 gflops
1,825 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
768
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
90 Watt
Texture fill rate
155.1
49.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
6.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
105.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
Multi monitor support
-
4 displays
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
-
+
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0