ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +265%

4.096 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Sep 2015

Manhattan

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

800

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Amethyst

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

E8950

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

5 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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