AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 16GB VRAM RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation 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 120W)

NVIDIA RTX 5000 Max-Q Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1680MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

8960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation +1880%

32.69 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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RTX 5000 Max Q Ada Generation

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2023

Solar System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1680 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

9728

48

TMUs

304

16

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

188.2 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

510.7 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

32.69 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.69 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

510.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

AD103

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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