NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M: Specs And Benchmarks - Technical City

Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 950M sales 13 March 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Maxwell architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 4 GB of DDR3 or GDDR5 memory clocked at 2.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 or 80 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce GTX 950M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	629
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	6.30	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Maxwell (2014−2017)
GPU code name	GM107
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	13 March 2015 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

GeForce GTX 950M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 950M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	640	of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed	914 MHz	of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed	1124 MHz	of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell))
Number of transistors	1,870 million	of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	of 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate	44.96	of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
Floating-point processing power	1.439 TFLOPS	of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
ROPs	16	of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs	40	of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache	320 KB	of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache	2 MB	of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce GTX 950M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
SLI options	+

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 950M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3 or GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed	1000 or 2500 MHz	of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	32 or 80 GB/s	of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)
Shared memory	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 950M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

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

Supported technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

GameStream	+
GeForce ShadowPlay	+
GPU Boost	2.0
GameWorks	+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder	+
Optimus	+
BatteryBoost	+
Ansel	+

API and SDK support

APIs supported by GeForce GTX 950M, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1
OpenGL	4.5	of 4.6 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server)
OpenCL	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126
CUDA	+