AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2013
Sep 2020
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 30
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1188 MHz
Base Clock
-
1440 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1710 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
10GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
128bit
320bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
760.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
8704
TMUs
48
272
ROPs
16
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
5 MB
SM Count
-
68
Tensor Cores
-
272
RT Cores
-
68

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
164.2 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
465.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
465.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
29.77 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Saturn
GA102
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
GA102-200-KD-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
628 mm²

Board Design

TDP
100W
320W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
700 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
CUDA
-
8.6

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
17,662
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
8,879