AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2070 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile +301%

6.636 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2019

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1215 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

768

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

92.16 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

207.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

13.27 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.636 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

207.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

TU106

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N18E-G2-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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