AMD Radeon Pro 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 580

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 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 580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1200MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 580 +234%

5.53 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1200 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1695 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

217.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

12

-

2304

Shading Units

768

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

172.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

5.530 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.530 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

345.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Saturn

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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