AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1095MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q +290%

6.447 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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GeForce RTX 2080 Max Q

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

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1095 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

384.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2944

48

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

70.08 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.89 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.447 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

TU104

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N18E-G3-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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