AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD Radeon E9550 MXM AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E9550 MXM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E9550 MXM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9550 MXM +253%

5.834 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon E9550 MXM

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Sep 2016

Release Date

May 2013

Embedded

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Saturn

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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