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
L4
CORE STATE
AD104
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
2040 MHz
TDP
72 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
PROCESS
5 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2023
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
geekbench_vulkan
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8950M
L4
Core Specs
Shading Units
768
7,424
+866.7%
Shaders
768
7,424
+866.7%
TMUs
48
240
+400.0%
ROPs
16
80
+400.0%
Compute Units
12
—
SM Count
—
60
Clocks
Base Clock
—
795 MHz
Boost Clock
—
2040 MHz
GPU Clock
1075 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
5.5 Gbps effective
1563 MHz
12.5 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
2 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
2,048
24,576
+1100.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128 bit
192 bit
Bandwidth
88.00 GB/s
300.1 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
48 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
163.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
489.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
1.651 TFLOPS
30.29 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
103.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
473.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
30.29 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
60
Tensor Cores
—
240
Power
TDP
100 W
72 W
TDP (W)
100
72
-28.0%
Suggested PSU
—
250 W
Power Connectors
—
None
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ada Lovelace
GPU Name
Saturn
AD104
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Server Ada
(Lxx)
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2,080 million
35,800 million
Die Size
160 mm²
294 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Density
13.0M / mm²
121.8M / 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
Single-slot
Length
—
169 mm
6.7 inches
Height
—
56 mm
2.2 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
Active
Predecessor
London
Server Ampere
Successor
Gem System
Server Hopper