AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

32 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +47%

1.651 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Broadway

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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