AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7470M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon HD 7470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470M 's Advantages

Boost Clock800MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +544%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon HD 7470M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2012

Solar System

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

800 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

768

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Seymour

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

67 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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