AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2015
Aug 2012
Generation
Embedded
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
735 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
1024MB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
128.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
18
Shading Units
2048
1440
TMUs
128
72
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
23.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
52.20 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
2.088 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
256.0 GFLOPS
417.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Amethyst
Cypress
GPU Variant
E8950
Cypress PRO(215-0735043)
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TeraScale 2
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
40 nm
Transistors
5 billion
2.154 billion
Die Size
366 mm²
334 mm²
Board Design
TDP
95W
151W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.3a1x DisplayPort 1.1
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.3
5.0