NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 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 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +1897%

32.98 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

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

1335 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

76

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

9728

Shading Units

768

304

TMUs

48

112

ROPs

16

304

Tensor Cores

-

76

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

515.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

32.98 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

32.98 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

515.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

Saturn

GN21-X11

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

28 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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