Radeon HD 8950M and Arc A580 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8950M
Arc A580
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
-
GPU code name
Saturn
DG2-512
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
October 2023
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2000 MHz
Core clock speed
1075 MHz
1700 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,651 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
6 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
21,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
51.60
384.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5500 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
88 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3