AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 900
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
950 MHz
1024 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
105.8GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
-
Shading Units
2048
768
TMUs
128
48
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
38.02 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
57.02 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Malta
GM206
GPU Variant
Malta XT(215-0849026)
GM206-250-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
365 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
375W
90W
Suggested PSU
750 W
250 W
Outputs
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
1,903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
396