AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA NVS 300

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +8400%

3.315 TFLOPS

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

NVS 300

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Sea Islands

Generation

NVS

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

790 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.64GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.080 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

39.36 GFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GT218

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

GT218-670-B1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

18W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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