AMD Radeon E8950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon E8950

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +265%

4.096 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

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Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2010

Embedded

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

800

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Broadway

E8950

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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