NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7450M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and AMD Radeon HD 7450M 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) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 8x more texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
  • 4x more pipelines: 640 vs 160
  • 6.4x better floating-point performance: 1,439 gflops vs 224.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 7.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2580 vs 330
  • 20.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9741 vs 476
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 1832
  • 2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 1832
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 7 January 2012
Core clock speed 914 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 160
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops vs 224.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2580 vs 330
Geekbench - OpenCL 9741 vs 476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3715 vs 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 vs 1832

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7450M

  • 10.7x lower typical power consumption: 7 Watt vs 75 Watt
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 217
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3493 vs 3358
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3493 vs 3358
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 7 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 vs 217
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3493 vs 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3493 vs 3358

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7450M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2580
330
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
441
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
9741
476
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3493
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3715
1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
3493
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M AMD Radeon HD 7450M
PassMark - G3D Mark 2580 330
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 441
Geekbench - OpenCL 9741 476
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 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 3493
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4148
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3715 1832
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 3493
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M AMD Radeon HD 7450M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell TeraScale 2
Code name GM107 Seymour
Launch date 13 March 2015 7 January 2012
Place in performance rating 814 816
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 700 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops 224.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 640 160
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s 5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 7 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 370 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 32 or 80 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 or GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0 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