AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X +19%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

VS

Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2016

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

14

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

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

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Emerald

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Emerald XT

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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