AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 80.19GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +18%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM107

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-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

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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