NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 6790

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and AMD Radeon HD 6790 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 9% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 840 MHz
• Around 34% higher texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 33.6 GTexel / s
• Around 7% better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 1,344.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 150 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2581 vs 1590
• 3.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 42.396 vs 12.318
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.54 vs 1.234
• Around 37% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 39.412 vs 28.768
• Around 15% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 139.158 vs 121.423
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4148 vs 3127
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3534
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4148 vs 3127
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3534

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6790

• Around 25% higher pipelines: 800 vs 640
• Around 68% higher memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 1000 or 2500 MHz
• Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 367 vs 217
• 2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 750.421 vs 373.644

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6790

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2581 1590
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	217 367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	42.396 12.318
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	373.644 750.421
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.54 1.234
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.412 28.768
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	139.158 121.423
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4148 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3715 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4148 3127
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3715 3534
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3358 3350

Compare specifications (specs)