AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 7900M 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 RX 7900M 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2090MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 7900M +2233%

38.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7900M

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2023

Release Date

May 2013

Navi Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2090 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

72

Compute Units

12

4608

Shading Units

768

288

TMUs

48

192

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

72

RT Cores

-

256 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

6 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

401.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

601.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

77.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

38.52 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

1204 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 31

GPU Name

Saturn

Navi 31

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

RDNA 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

57.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

6.3

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