GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED 925 MHz

TDP 200 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

CORE STATE TU104

VRAM 8 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1815 MHz

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,882

geekbench_opencl

N/A

114,190

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

108,401

passmark_directx_10

N/A

140

passmark_directx_11

N/A

165

passmark_directx_12

N/A

75

passmark_directx_9

N/A

227

passmark_g2d

N/A

920

passmark_g3d

N/A

19,490

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

8,290

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 8950 OEM

RTX 2080 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,792

3,072 +71.4%

Shaders

1,792

3,072 +71.4%

TMUs

112

192 +71.4%

ROPs

32

64 +100.0%

Compute Units

28

—

SM Count

—

48

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1650 MHz

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1815 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz 5 Gbps effective

1937 MHz 15.5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

8 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

8,192 +166.7%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

384 bit

256 bit

Bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

495.9 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

4 MB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

116.2 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

348.5 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.315 TFLOPS

11.15 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

828.8 GFLOPS (1:4)

348.5 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

22.30 TFLOPS (2:1)

AI/RT

RT Cores

—

48

Tensor Cores

—

384

Power

TDP

200 W

250 W

TDP (W)

200

250 +25.0%

Suggested PSU

550 W

600 W

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

GPU Name

Tahiti

TU104

Generation

Sea Islands (HD 8900)

GeForce 20

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

13,600 million

Die Size

352 mm²

545 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

25.0M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

Dual-slot

Length

267 mm 10.5 inches

267 mm 10.5 inches

Height

—

116 mm 4.6 inches

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a1x USB Type-C

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

699 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Southern Islands

GeForce 10

Successor

Volcanic Islands

GeForce 30

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