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
CMP 50HX
CORE STATE
TU102
VRAM
10 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1545 MHz
TDP
250 W
BUS WIDTH
320 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
PROCESS
12 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
CMP 50HX
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
3,584
+366.7%
Shaders
768
3,584
+366.7%
TMUs
48
192
+300.0%
ROPs
16
80
+400.0%
Compute Units
12
—
SM Count
—
56
Clocks
Base Clock
—
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1545 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1750 MHz
14 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
10 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
10,240
+400.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
320 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
560.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
5 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
123.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
296.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
11.07 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
346.1 GFLOPS (1:32)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
22.15 TFLOPS (2:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
56
Tensor Cores
—
448
Power
TDP
100 W
250 W
TDP (W)
100
250
+150.0%
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Turing
GPU Name
Saturn
TU102
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
18,600 million
Die Size
160 mm²
754 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
24.7M / 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
—
7.5
Shader Model
6.5
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
116 mm
4.6 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
—
Successor
Gem System
—