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
PG506-232
CORE STATE
GA100
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1440 MHz
TDP
165 W
BUS WIDTH
3072 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
7 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
PG506-232
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
3,584
+366.7%
Shaders
768
3,584
+366.7%
TMUs
48
224
+366.7%
ROPs
16
96
+500.0%
Compute Units
12
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
—
930 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1440 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1215 MHz
2.4 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
24,576
+1100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2
Memory Bus
128 bit
3072 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
933.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
24 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
138.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
322.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
10.32 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
5.161 TFLOPS (1:2)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
10.32 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
Tensor Cores
—
224
Power
TDP
100 W
165 W
TDP (W)
100
165
+65.0%
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
8-pin EPS
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Saturn
GA100
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Server Ampere
(Axx)
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
54,200 million
Die Size
160 mm²
826 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
65.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (12_0)
—
OpenGL
4.6
—
Vulkan
1.2.170
—
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
CUDA
—
8.0
Shader Model
6.5
—
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
Tesla Turing
Successor
Gem System
Server Ada