AMD Radeon R9 M265X vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M265X

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M265X 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 R9 M265X 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock625MHz

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M265X

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +106%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M265X

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

575 MHz

Base Clock

-

625 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

768

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

25.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

800.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

50.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Saturn

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.3

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