AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GRID M6 8Q
GPU · Specs Compare
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
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.