NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q 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 RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

6656 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q +1113%

20.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

795 MHz

Base Clock

-

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

58

SM Count

-

7424

Shading Units

768

232

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

16

232

Tensor Cores

-

58

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

108.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

313.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

20.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

20.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

313.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Saturn

GN21-X9

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

295 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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