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
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
CORE STATE
DG1
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1650 MHz
TDP
25 W
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Generation 12.1
PROCESS
10 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2020
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
Iris Xe MAX Graphics
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
768
0.0%
Shaders
768
768
0.0%
TMUs
48
48
0.0%
ROPs
16
24
+50.0%
Compute Units
12
—
Execution Units
—
96
Clocks
Base Clock
—
300 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1650 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
2133 MHz
4.3 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
4 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
4,096
+100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory Bus
128 bit
128 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
68.26 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
—
L2 Cache
256 KB
1024 KB
L3 Cache
—
16 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
39.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
79.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
2.534 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
633.6 GFLOPS (1:4)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.069 TFLOPS (2:1)
Power
TDP
100 W
25 W
TDP (W)
100
25
-75.0%
Suggested PSU
—
200 W
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Generation 12.1
GPU Name
Saturn
DG1
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Xe Graphics
Process Size
28 nm
10 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
—
Die Size
160 mm²
95 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Intel
Density
13.0M / mm²
—
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
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
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Graphics
Successor
Gem System
Alchemist