AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +454%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710M

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GT 710M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

15W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF117

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N14M-GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 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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