AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 705A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 705A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 705A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +1714%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 705A

0.091 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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GeForce 705A

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

950.0 MPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.20 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

7.600 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF119

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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