AMD Radeon R9 M380 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M380 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M380

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
• Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 48 GTexel / s vs 44.96 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
• Around 7% better floating-point performance: 1,536 gflops vs 1,439 gflops
• Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2763 vs 2586
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 528 vs 216
• Around 35% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12839 vs 9543
• Around 46% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 546.907 vs 373.644
• Around 3% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.618 vs 2.54
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 48.878 vs 39.412
• Around 39% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 194.051 vs 139.158

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

• Around 2% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 900 MHz
• Around 12% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 1000 MHz
• Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1500 MHz
• Around 22% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 42.396 vs 34.701
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4148 vs 3688
• 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 536
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 2855
• Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4148 vs 3688
• 6.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 536
• Around 18% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3358 vs 2855

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M380
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2763 2586
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	528 216
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	12839 9543
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	34.701 42.396
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	546.907 373.644
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.618 2.54
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	48.878 39.412
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	194.051 139.158
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	536 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2855 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3688 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	536 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2855 3358

Compare specifications (specs)