AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GRID K2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950M and NVIDIA GRID K2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GRID K2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1075 MHz vs 745 MHz
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Core clock speed	1075 MHz vs 745 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K2

5.7x more texture fill rate: 2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 51.6 GTexel / s
4x more pipelines: 2x 1536 vs 768
2.8x better floating-point performance: 2x 2,289 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2x 4 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 51.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2x 1536 vs 768
Floating-point performance	2x 2,289 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
Maximum memory size	2x 4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GRID K2

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8950M	NVIDIA GRID K2
PassMark - G3D Mark		2737
PassMark - G2D Mark		319
Geekbench - OpenCL		10550
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		18.948
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		968.568
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.58
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		32.988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		114.144
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6371
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		312
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6371
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		312

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8950M	NVIDIA GRID K2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	Kepler
Code name	Saturn	GK104
Launch date	14 May 2013	11 May 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	975
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$5,199
Technical info
Core clock speed	1075 MHz	745 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,651 gflops	2x 2,289 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	2x 1536
Texture fill rate	51.6 GTexel / s	2x 95.36 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		267 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2x 4 GB
Memory bandwidth	88 GB / s	2x 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5