NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX A4000 Max Q +764%

14.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

May 2013

Quadro Ampere-M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

1395 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

352.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

5120

Shading Units

768

160

TMUs

48

80

ROPs

16

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

111.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

223.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

14.28 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.28 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

223.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

Saturn

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GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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