AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1127MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980M +109%

3.462 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GTX 980M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Oct 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1038 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1127 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

160.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.13 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.2 GTexel/s

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1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.462 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

108.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM204

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GX-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

398 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 (6.4)

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