AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2013
Jan 2017
Generation
Sea Islands
Polaris Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
1090 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1202 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
96.00GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
16
Shading Units
1792
1024
TMUs
112
64
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
19.23 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
76.93 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
2.462 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
153.9 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.462 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
Baffin
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Baffin XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
3 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
123 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
65W
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7