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
GEFORCE
L40
CORE STATE
AD102
VRAM
48 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2490 MHz
TDP
300 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2022
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
L40
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
18,176
+2266.7%
Shaders
768
18,176
+2266.7%
TMUs
48
568
+1083.3%
ROPs
16
192
+1100.0%
Compute Units
12
—
SM Count
—
142
Clocks
Base Clock
—
735 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2490 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
2250 MHz
18 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
48 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
49,152
+2300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
864.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
96 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
478.1 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
1,414.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
90.52 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
1,414.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
90.52 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
142
Tensor Cores
—
568
Power
TDP
100 W
300 W
TDP (W)
100
300
+200.0%
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 16-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
Saturn
AD102
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Server Ada
(Lxx)
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
76,300 million
Die Size
160 mm²
609 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
125.3M / 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
CUDA
—
8.9
Shader Model
6.5
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
111 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Server Ampere
Successor
Gem System
Server Hopper