AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro VII

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM AMD Radeon Pro VII

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro VII to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 1.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro VII 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 84% (1700MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro VII +293%

13.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon Pro VII

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2020

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Pro Vega

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1400 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.02TB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

60

1792

Shading Units

3840

112

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

108.8 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

408.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

26.11 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

13.06 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.528 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Vega 20

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Vega 20 GLXT WS (215-0914026)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.1

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

13.23 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

331 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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