Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2013 | Mar 2010 |
| Generation | Solar System | Evergreen |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 88.00GB/s | 153.6GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 12 | 20 |
| Shading Units | 768 | 1600 |
| TMUs | 48 | 80 |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 17.20 GPixel/s | 27.20 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 51.60 GTexel/s | 68.00 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.651 TFLOPS | 2.720 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 103.2 GFLOPS | 544.0 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Saturn | Cypress |
| GPU Variant | Saturn XT | Cypress XT(215-0735033) |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | TeraScale 2 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 2.08 billion | 2.154 billion |
| Die Size | 160 mm² | 334 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 228W |
| Outputs | No outputs | 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1 |
| Suggested PSU | 550 W | |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | 5.0 |