AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 650M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 's Advantages

Boost Clock950MHz

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M +126%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 650M

0.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

GeForce GT 650M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

835 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.600 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

729.6 GFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

30.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GK107

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

N13P-GT-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

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

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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