AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +4027%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M G

0.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce 9500M G

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

40.00 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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