AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon E8950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +330%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2011

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GF114

E8950

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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