Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 Jan 2019
Generation Sea Islands Mobility Radeon
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory Clock 1250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 3GB 4GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 384bit 128bit
Bandwidth 240.0GB/s 112.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 28 14
Shading Units 1792 896
TMUs 112 56
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 19.57 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 103.6 GTexel/s 68.49 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 3.315 TFLOPS 2.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 828.8 GFLOPS 137.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 2.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Tahiti Polaris 31
GPU Variant Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) Polaris 31 MXL
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 No outputs
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 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4