AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +197%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

16

768

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Navi 24

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

GCN 2.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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