GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 8850M

CORE STATE Venus

VRAM 2 GB

CLOCK SPEED 625 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 980

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1216 MHz

TDP 165 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

7,447

33,457

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

474

geekbench_metal

N/A

15,163

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

38,172

passmark_directx_10

N/A

53

passmark_directx_11

N/A

83

passmark_directx_12

N/A

46

passmark_directx_9

N/A

164

passmark_g2d

N/A

792

passmark_g3d

N/A

11,095

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

4,753

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 8850M

GTX 980

Core Specs

Shading Units

640

2,048 +220.0%

Shaders

640

2,048 +220.0%

TMUs

40

128 +220.0%

ROPs

16

64 +300.0%

Compute Units

10

—

Clocks

Base Clock

575 MHz

1127 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1216 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective

1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

2 GB

4 GB

VRAM (MB)

2,048

4,096 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

64.00 GB/s

224.4 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

256 KB

2 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

77.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

800.0 GFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

50.00 GFLOPS (1:16)

155.6 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

—

165 W

TDP (W)

—

165

Suggested PSU

—

450 W

Power Connectors

—

2x 6-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Venus

GM204

Generation

Solar System (HD 8800M)

GeForce 900

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

1,500 million

5,200 million

Die Size

123 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.2M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

—

Dual-slot

Length

—

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

—

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.2

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

549 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

London

GeForce 700

Successor

Gem System

GeForce 10

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