NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (13W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

760 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9300M GS

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +7404%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-I

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

11.20GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

768

4

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

2.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

22.40 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

13W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

Saturn

NB9M-GS

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

86 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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