NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2021
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
780 MHz
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Boost Clock
1245 MHz
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Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
384.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
48
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Shading Units
6144
768
TMUs
192
48
ROPs
96
16
Tensor Cores
192
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RT Cores
48
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
119.5 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
239.0 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
15.30 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
15.30 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
239.0 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
Saturn
GPU Variant
GA104-775-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.6
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.