AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1020MHz

Lower TDP (17W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +110%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 930MX

0.783 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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GeForce 930MX

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

952 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1020 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.160 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.48 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.4 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.48 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GM108

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N16S-GMR

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

100W

TDP

17W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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