AMD Radeon 540 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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AMD Radeon 540 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon 540 Mobile 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 540 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon 540 Mobile

1.151 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +43%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon 540 Mobile

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1124 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

8

Compute Units

12

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

35.97 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

1151 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1151 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

71.94 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Saturn

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

50W

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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