AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1734MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +437%

8.878 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 1080 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

1556 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

768

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

150W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GP104

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-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

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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