AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64 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 Vega 64 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1350MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 64 +569%

11.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1250 MHz

Base Clock

-

1350 MHz

Boost Clock

-

786 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

128bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

12

4096

Shading Units

768

256

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

86.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

345.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

22.12 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

11.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Saturn

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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