AMD Radeon Pro 455 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro 455 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 455 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 81.28GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 455

1.313 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +25%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 455

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

81.28GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

12

768

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

13.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

41.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

1313 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1313 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

82.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Saturn

Baffin PRO

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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