GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8950M
CORE STATE
Saturn
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
—
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 2.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
GPU
Arc A580
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2000 MHz
TDP
175 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
A580
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
3,072
+300.0%
Shaders
768
3,072
+300.0%
TMUs
48
192
+300.0%
ROPs
16
96
+500.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
384
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1700 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2000 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
256 KB
8 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
192.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
384.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
12.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
1.536 TFLOPS (1:8)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
24.58 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
24
XMX Cores
—
384
Power
TDP
100 W
175 W
TDP (W)
100
175
+75.0%
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Saturn
DG2-512
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Alchemist
(Arc 5)
Process Size
28 nm
6 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
21,700 million
Die Size
160 mm²
406 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
53.4M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Shader Model
6.5
6.6
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
London
Xe Graphics
Successor
Gem System
Battlemage