Radeon HD 8950 OEM and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Tahiti

AD103-400-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

January 2024

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

2550 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

2295 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

45,900 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

10240

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

320 Watt

Texture fill rate

103.6

816.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

23000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

716.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

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

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3