AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64 +569%

11.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 64

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2017

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1250 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1350 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

64

-

768

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

86.40 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

345.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

22.12 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.06 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

691.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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