AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

VS

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon R9 M470X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1100MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +107%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

May 2016

Embedded

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

14

-

2048

Shading Units

896

128

TMUs

56

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

17.60 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

Emerald

E8950

GPU Variant

Emerald XT

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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