AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M 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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1150MHz

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M +42%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 965M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

935 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.80 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.60 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.355 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM206S

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GR-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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