Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX A2000
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2013 | Aug 2021 |
| Generation | Sea Islands | Quadro Ampere |
| Type | Desktop | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | 562 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 925 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1250 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 6GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 192bit |
| Bandwidth | 240.0GB/s | 288.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 28 | |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 3328 |
| TMUs | 112 | 104 |
| ROPs | 32 | 48 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 128 KB (per SM) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 3 MB |
| SM Count | 26 | |
| Tensor Cores | 104 | |
| RT Cores | 26 | |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 29.60 GPixel/s | 57.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 103.6 GTexel/s | 124.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 3.315 TFLOPS | 7.987 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 828.8 GFLOPS | 124.8 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 7.987 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | GA106 |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti PRO(215-0821056) | GA106-850-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
| Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 8 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 12 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 200W | 70W |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | 250 W |
| Outputs | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 | 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a |
| Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.7 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | |