AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTX 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 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

656 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +489%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTX

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce 9800M GTX

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

112

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G92

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

NB9E-GTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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