AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE

GPU Specs Compare

G

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD 2013-05
G

NVIDIA Quadro M3000 SE

NVIDIA 2016-10

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