AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1000MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +312%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

Embedded

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

10

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Venus

E8950

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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