AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon R9 285
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Sep 2014
Generation
Solar System
Volcanic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
28
Shading Units
768
1792
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
29.38 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
102.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
3.290 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
205.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.290 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
Tonga
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Tonga PRO(215-0851128)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
366 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
190W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2.170
Shader Model
6.3
6.5