AMD ROG Ally Extreme vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Comparative analysis of AMD ROG Ally Extreme and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD ROG Ally Extreme

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 64% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 914 MHz
  • 2.4x more boost clock speed: 2700 MHz vs 1124 MHz
  • 2882.6x more texture fill rate: 129.6 GTexel/s vs 44.96 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 4 GB
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 vs 13 March 2015
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 914 MHz
Boost clock speed 2700 MHz vs 1124 MHz
Texture fill rate 129.6 GTexel/s vs 44.96 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 4 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

  • Around 56% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective
  • Around 18% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 3350 vs 2828
Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3350 vs 2828

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD ROG Ally Extreme
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
2828
3350
Name AMD ROG Ally Extreme NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2828 3350
PassMark - G3D Mark 2587
PassMark - G2D Mark 217
Geekbench - OpenCL 9708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD ROG Ally Extreme NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 3.0 Maxwell
Code name Phoenix GM107
Launch date 13 Jun 2023 13 March 2015
Place in performance rating 881 883
Type Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2700 MHz 1124 MHz
Compute units 12
Core clock speed 1500 MHz 914 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 4 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 768 640
Pixel fill rate 86.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 129.6 GTexel/s 44.96 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 25390 million 1,870 million
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x USB Type-C No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Height 21 mm, 0.8 inches
Length 280 mm, 11 inches
Supplementary power connectors None
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL 2.1
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 51.20 GB/s 32 or 80 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz, 6.4 Gbps effective 1000 or 2500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 DDR3 or GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI