GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8850M
CORE STATE
Venus
VRAM
2 GB
CLOCK SPEED
625 MHz
TDP
—
BUS WIDTH
128 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
RADEON
Radeon Pro 580X
CORE STATE
Ellesmere
VRAM
8 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1200 MHz
TDP
185 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 4.0
PROCESS
14 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2019
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_metal
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8850M
Pro 580X
Core Specs
Shading Units
640
2,304
+260.0%
Shaders
640
2,304
+260.0%
TMUs
40
144
+260.0%
ROPs
16
32
+100.0%
Compute Units
10
36
+260.0%
Clocks
Base Clock
575 MHz
1100 MHz
Boost Clock
625 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
1710 MHz
6.8 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
8 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
8,192
+300.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128 bit
256 bit
Bandwidth
64.00 GB/s
218.9 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
38.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
172.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
800.0 GFLOPS
5.530 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
50.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
345.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
5.530 TFLOPS (1:1)
Power
TDP
—
185 W
TDP (W)
—
185
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
GPU Name
Venus
Ellesmere
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8800M)
Radeon Pro Mac
(500X Series)
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
1,500 million
5,700 million
Die Size
123 mm²
232 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Density
12.2M / mm²
24.6M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
2.1
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.7
Physical
Slot Width
—
IGP
Outputs
—
2x HDMI 2.0b
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Apple MPX
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
—
Successor
Gem System
—