NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD Radeon E8870

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A AMD Radeon E8870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A and 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Boost Clock1124MHz

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870 +6%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

VS

Radeon E8870

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900A

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

993 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

44.96 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1439 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

44.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Saturn

N16P-GT

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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