NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and ATI Mobility Radeon X300 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 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2.6x more core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 3.2x more boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 350 MHz
  • 32.1x more texture fill rate: 44.96 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
  • 160x more pipelines: 640 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 110 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 128 MB
  • 5x more memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 76.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2586 vs 34
  • Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 216 vs 204
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 1 November 2005
Core clock speed 914 MHz vs 350 MHz
Boost clock speed 1124 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2586 vs 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 vs 204

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2586
34
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
216
204
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M ATI Mobility Radeon X300
PassMark - G3D Mark 2586 34
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 204
Geekbench - OpenCL 9543
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3350

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Rage 9
Code name GM107 M22
Launch date 13 March 2015 1 November 2005
Place in performance rating 864 861
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz 350 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 350 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 110 nm
Pipelines 640 4
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s 1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 107 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 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0b
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 32 or 80 GB / s 4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 250 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type DDR3 or GDDR5 64
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
PCIe