AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA NVS 5100M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5100M 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 5100M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +1323%

1.651 TFLOPS

NVS 5100M

0.116 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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NVS 5100M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

116.2 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GT216

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N10P-NS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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