AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1219MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +228%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

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Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2017

Embedded

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

8

2048

Shading Units

512

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Lexa

E8950

GPU Variant

E9170

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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