GeForce GTX 950 LP vs Radeon HD 8790M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking733not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameMarsGM206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)1 March 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$159

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384768
Core clock speed850 MHz1024 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1188 MHz
Number of transistors950 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown75 Watt
Texture fill rate21.6057.02
Floating-point processing power0.6912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs832
TMUs2448

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data202 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz6612 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s105.8 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0
Shader Model5.15.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.2.131-
CUDA-5.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 1 March 2016

GTX 950 LP has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8790M and GeForce GTX 950 LP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8790M is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 950 LP is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8790M
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