AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 550v to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +473%

1.651 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Solar System

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

4

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

M96

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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