AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA CMP 40HX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA CMP 40HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 8GB VRAM CMP 40HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 40HX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (1650MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

CMP 40HX +129%

7.603 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

CMP 40HX

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Feb 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

237.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.21 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.603 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

237.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

TU106

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

TU106-100-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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