AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA NVS 310

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA NVS 310

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 512MB VRAM NVS 310 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.00GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 310 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +3215%

3.315 TFLOPS

NVS 310

0.1 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVS 310

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jun 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

875 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.046 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.184 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

100.4 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

8.368 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

20W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GF119

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GF119-825-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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