AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 59% (1468MHz vs 925MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +194%

3.315 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

30W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GP108

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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