NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon E8950
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM RTX A2000 Max Q and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A2000 Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 21% (1207MHz vs 1000MHz)
512 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A2000 Max Q
+50%
6.18 TFLOPS
Radeon E8950
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Sep 2015
Ampere-MW
Generation
Embedded
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
682 MHz
Base Clock
735 MHz
1207 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
20
SM Count
-
2560
Shading Units
2048
80
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
80
Tensor Cores
-
20
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
57.94 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
96.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
6.180 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.096 TFLOPS
6.180 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
96.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
256.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
95W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA107
GPU Name
Amethyst
-
GPU Variant
E8950
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
28 nm
8.7 billion
Transistors
5 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.6
CUDA
-
6.8
Shader Model
6.3
