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 A730M
CORE STATE
DG2-512
VRAM
12 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2050 MHz
TDP
80 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Xe-HPG
PROCESS
6 nm
LAUNCH DATE
—
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
A730M
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
—
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2050 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
12 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
12,288
+500.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
336.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
256 KB
12 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
196.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
393.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
12.60 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
—
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
25.19 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
24
XMX Cores
—
384
Power
TDP
100 W
80 W
TDP (W)
100
80
-20.0%
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Xe-HPG
GPU Name
Saturn
DG2-512
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Alchemist
(Arc 7 Mobile)
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
IGP
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
—
Successor
Gem System
—