NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

575 points

658 points

14% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

11 FPS

14 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

13 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

70.66 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

12376 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points

12402 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

13344 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

16804 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

230% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1124 MHz

1400 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

15 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.98 Gigapixels/s

60% significantly higher pixel rate

11.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s

61.6 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

704

10% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

10% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 586

297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon Vega 11 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 11 beats the GeForce GTX 950M in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 11 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon Vega 11 over the GeForce GTX 950M.