NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M and NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR 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 15 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 7.6x more core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 220 nm
  • 128x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 32 MB
  • 8.3x more memory clock speed: 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 300 MHz
  • 517x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2585 vs 5
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 201
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 March 2015 vs 1 February 2000
Core clock speed 914 MHz vs 120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 220 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2585 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 vs 201

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

  • 10.7x more texture fill rate: 480 MTexel / s vs 44.96 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 480 MTexel / s vs 44.96 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2585
5
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
217
201
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR
PassMark - G3D Mark 2585 5
PassMark - G2D Mark 217 201
Geekbench - OpenCL 9729
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 NVIDIA GeForce 256 DDR

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell Celsius
Code name GM107 NV10 A3
Launch date 13 March 2015 1 February 2000
Place in performance rating 884 882
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1124 MHz
Core clock speed 914 MHz 120 MHz
CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,439 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 220 nm
Pipelines 640
Texture fill rate 44.96 GTexel / s 480 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 17 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x VGA
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 AGP 4x
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 7.0
OpenGL 4.5 1.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 32 MB
Memory bandwidth 32 or 80 GB / s 4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 or 2500 MHz 300 MHz
Memory type DDR3 or GDDR5 DDR
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