AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 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 5070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile +1306%

23.22 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

768

Shading Units

4608

48

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GB206

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

GB206

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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

10.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.8

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