AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro SSG

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon Pro SSG

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro SSG to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 260W)

AMD Radeon Pro SSG 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 62% (1500MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro SSG +270%

12.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro SSG

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1440 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1500 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

945 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

483.8GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

64

-

1792

Shading Units

4096

112

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

96.00 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

384.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.58 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.29 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

768.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

260W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 10

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT GL (215-0894124)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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