AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64X +628%

12.03 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 64X

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1250 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

512.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

64

768

Shading Units

4096

48

TMUs

256

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

93.95 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

375.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

24.05 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.03 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

751.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Vega 10

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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