Quadro M1200 and Radeon HD 8950 OEM - video card comparison

Quadro M1200

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

N17P-Q1

Tahiti

Market segment

Mobile workstation

Desktop

Release date

January 2017

January 2013

Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1150 MHz

925 MHz

Core clock speed

991 MHz

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1870 Million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

1792

Power consumption (TDP)

45 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

43.72

103.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Display Port

1.2

-

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12

12 (11_1)

CUDA

5.0

-

OpenCL

1.2

1.2

OpenGL

4.5

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.131

3D Stereo

+

-

Mosaic

+

-

nView Display Management

+

-

Optimus

+

-