AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2013
Aug 2016
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
1442 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1645 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
2002 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
256.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
2048
TMUs
112
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
16

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
105.3 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
210.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
6.738 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
210.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
105.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GP104
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
N17E-G2-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
314 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
120W
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_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1