AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce G105M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce G105M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 256MB VRAM GeForce G105M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce G105M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +4755%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce G105M

0.034 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce G105M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.24 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GT218

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

GT218-300-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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