Radeon HD 8950M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870 |
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| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
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| More compute units | 16 | vs | 10 | 6 more compute units | |||
| More texture mapping units | 56 | vs | 40 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
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Features Key features of the Radeon HD 8950M vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu | Radeon HD 8950M | vs | Mobility Radeon HD 5870 |
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| GPU brand | AMD | ATI | |
| GPU name | Saturn | Broadway | |
| Market | Laptop | Laptop | |
| Clock speed | 700 MHz | 700 MHz | |
| Is dual GPU | No | No | |
| Reference card | None | None | |
raw performance | |||
| Shading units | 896 | 800 | |
| Texture mapping units | 56 | 40 | |
| Render output processors | 16 | 16 | |
| Compute units | 16 | 10 | |
| Pixel rate | 11.2 GPixel/s | 11.2 GPixel/s | |
| Texture rate | 39.2 GTexel/s | 28 GTexel/s | |
| Floating-point performance | 1,254 GFLOPS | 1,120 GFLOPS | |
memory | Radeon HD 8950M | vs | Mobility Radeon HD 5870 |
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| Memory clock speed | 1,000 MHz | 1,000 MHz | |
| Effective memory clock speed | 4,000 MHz | 4,000 MHz | |
| Memory bus | 128 bit | 128 bit | |
| Memory | 2,048 MB | 1,024 MB | |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 | |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | 64 GB/s |
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