AMD Radeon 550X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD Radeon 550X Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 550X Mobile

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

12

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 23

GPU Name

Saturn

Polaris 23 MXT

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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