AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA T500 Mobile

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM T500 Mobile 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 80.00GB/s)

NVIDIA T500 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

T500 Mobile +83%

3.037 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

T500 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2020

Solar System

Generation

Quadro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

94.92 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.075 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.037 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

94.92 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

TU117

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

18W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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