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GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

The GeForce GTX 950M has a core clock frequency of 914 MHz and a DDR3 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 640 SPUs, 40 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R5 M330, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1030 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this model. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 950M will be 122% faster than the Radeon R5 M330 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M 32000 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M330 14400 MB/sec
Difference: 17600 (122%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 950M should be much (approximately 77%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R5 M330. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M 36560 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M330 20600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 15960 (77%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 950M is superior to the Radeon R5 M330, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 950M 14624 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M330 8240 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 6384 (77%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 950M Radeon R5 M330
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2015 2015
Code Name GM107 Oland
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 914 MHz 1030 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 1800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 55 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 14400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 36560 Mtexels/sec 20600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14624 Mpixels/sec 8240 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 320
Texture Mapping Units 40 20
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type DDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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