AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 160.4GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1127MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +18%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1038 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1536

128

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM204

E8950

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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