NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 NVIDIA · 2025-01
GPU AMD Radeon HD 8950M AMD · 2013-05
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2025
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 50
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2295 MHz
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Boost Clock
2617 MHz
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Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
84
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Shading Units
10752
768
TMUs
336
48
ROPs
112
16
Tensor Cores
336
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RT Cores
84
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L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
64 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GB203
Saturn
GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
45.6 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
378 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
360W
100W
Suggested PSU
750 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
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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
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
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Shader Model
6.8
6.3
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
33,116
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
16,627
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3DMark Speed Way
9,296
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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.