Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2013 | Aug 2015 |
| Generation | Solar System | GRID |
| Type | Mobile | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1375 MHz | 1253 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 2GB | 8GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 128bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 88.00GB/s | 160.4GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 12 | |
| Shading Units | 768 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 48 | 96 |
| ROPs | 16 | 64 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 48 KB (per SMM) |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | 2 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 17.20 GPixel/s | 46.21 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 51.60 GTexel/s | 69.31 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 1.651 TFLOPS | 2.218 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 103.2 GFLOPS | 69.31 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Saturn | GM204 |
| GPU Variant | Saturn XT | GM204-995-A1 |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Maxwell 2.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 2.08 billion | 5.2 billion |
| Die Size | 160 mm² | 398 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 100W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Suggested PSU | 300 W | |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| 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 | 5.2 | |