AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +346%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

48

768

Shading Units

3072

48

TMUs

192

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

230.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.75 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.373 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

460.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Vega 10 PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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