AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

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AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960A 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1085MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +194%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960A

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GTX 960A

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1029 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM107

E8950

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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