AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800S 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 51.14GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800S 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +759%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800S

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce 9800S

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

799 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

51.14GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

768

Shading Units

64

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G94

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

9800S

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

240 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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