AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +753%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

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Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Embedded

Generation

Vancouver

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

600 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

6

-

2048

Shading Units

480

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

26W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Whistler

E8950

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

104 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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