AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 330 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (925MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 330 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +506%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 330 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

830 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

5

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.840 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

50W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hainan

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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