AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +110%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon 530X Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

6

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.192 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Polaris 24

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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