AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1645MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile +308%

6.738 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1442 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.3 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

210.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

105.3 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.738 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

210.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP104

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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