AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA NVS 2100M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA NVS 2100M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 512MB VRAM NVS 2100M 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 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 2100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (11W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +4133%

1.651 TFLOPS

NVS 2100M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVS 2100M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

768

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.140 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.280 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

11W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GT218

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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