AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

9984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile +2505%

43.01 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce RTX 5090 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

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

768

Shading Units

10752

48

TMUs

336

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

256.0 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

672.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

43.01 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

43.01 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

175W

-

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GB203

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

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

377 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

10.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.8

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