AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Apr 2017
Generation
Solar System
Radeon Pro GCN
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
36
Shading Units
768
2304
TMUs
48
144
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
39.78 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Ellesmere Gemini GL
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.7
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.