AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2016
Generation
Solar System
Quadro
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1253 MHz
Base Clock
-
823 MHz
Boost Clock
-
924 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
1024
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
29.57 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
59.14 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
1.892 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
59.14 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GM204
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
75W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
-
250 W
Power Connectors
-
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.3
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2