AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Mobility Radeon X1700

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2006

Solar System

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.900 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

M66

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

M66-P (216BGCKC13FG)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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