AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

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AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +2033%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Sep 2010

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GF108

E8950

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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