AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile +480%

9.585 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2020

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 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

-

SM Count

48

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

384

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

99.84 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

299.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

19.17 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.585 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

TU104

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N18E-G3

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

150W

-

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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