AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 Mobile +199%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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Radeon RX 570 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Dec 2017

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

85W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

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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