AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce Go 6800

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2004

Solar System

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-III

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

550 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

NV41

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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