AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Solar System
Pirate Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1400 MHz
Base Clock
-
980 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1030 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
24
Shading Units
768
1280
TMUs
48
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
32.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
82.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
2.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
164.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
Trinidad
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
Trinidad XT
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
180W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1