AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2020
Generation
Solar System
Polaris
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Base Clock
—
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1420 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
256.0GB/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
45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
204.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
409.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
6.543 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
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
175W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
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.