AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile vs AMD Radeon E8950

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AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 Mobile and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1077MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 Mobile +21%

4.963 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 Mobile

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Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Sep 2015

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1077 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

32

2304

Shading Units

2048

144

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

34.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

155.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

4.963 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

4.963 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

310.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Amethyst

Ellesmere XT

GPU Variant

E8950

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

95W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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