AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Apr 2017
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 10
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1376 MHz
Base Clock
-
1607 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1733 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5X
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
352.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
2560
TMUs
48
160
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
110.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
277.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
8.873 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
277.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
138.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GP104
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
GP104-410-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
180W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1