AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon R7 M265

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon R7 M265

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M265 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 28.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M265 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock825MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +160%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M265

0.633 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon R7 M265

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

825 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/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

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.80 GTexel/s

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1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

633.6 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Opal

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Opal XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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