AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +169%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

768

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

85W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Saturn

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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