AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +42%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM107

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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