AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1011MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL +56%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon RX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2018

Solar System

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

931 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

20

-

768

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Polaris 22

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

VegaM XL (D715A714)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

208 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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