AMD Radeon E8870 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD Radeon E8870

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 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 E8870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +7%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

May 2013

Embedded

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

12

-

768

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Saturn

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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