AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

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

672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +759%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GT 420M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 400M

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

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

16.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF108

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N11P-GE-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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