AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1287MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +148%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Amethyst

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

E8950

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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