RSX-90nm and Radeon E8950 - video card comparison

RSX-90nm

Radeon E8950

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

RSX-90nm

Amethyst

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

-

September 2015

Interface

-

MXM-B (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

-

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

-

735 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

4,096 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

300 million

5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

-

95 Watt

Texture fill rate

-

128.0

Memory type

-

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

-

8 GB

Memory bus width

-

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

-

6000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

192.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

-

No outputs

DirectX

N/A

12 (12_0)

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

ES 1.1

4.6

Shader Model

-

6.3

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131