NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce GTX TITAN X and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1089MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX TITAN X +101%

6.691 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX TITAN X

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Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1089 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

3072

Shading Units

1792

192

TMUs

112

96

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

104.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

209.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

6.691 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

209.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM200-400-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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