AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon R9 M270X

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AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon R9 M270X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +166%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M270X

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

Radeon R9 M270X

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Feb 2015

Embedded

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

12

-

2048

Shading Units

768

128

TMUs

48

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

16.00 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Saturn

E8950

GPU Variant

Saturn PRO (216-0843044)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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