AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD FirePro S7100X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD FirePro S7100X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM FirePro S7100X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S7100X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

FirePro S7100X +79%

2.97 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

FirePro S7100X

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

32

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.970 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.970 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Amethyst

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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