AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Max Q

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
May 2013
May 2019
Generation
Solar System
Quadro Mobile
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
600 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1215 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
6GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
288.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
1920
TMUs
48
120
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
3 MB
SM Count
-
30
Tensor Cores
-
240
RT Cores
-
30

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
17.20 GPixel/s
77.76 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
51.60 GTexel/s
145.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.651 TFLOPS
4.666 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
103.2 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
9.331 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Saturn
TU106
GPU Variant
Saturn XT
-
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Turing
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
12 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
10.8 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
445 mm²

Board Design

TDP
100W
60W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
-
None

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
-
7.5