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    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs Radeon E8950

    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XMOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
    Radeon E8950
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 29 Sep 2015
    Radeon E8950

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon E8950

    55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile .
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports FreeSync
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports TrueAudio
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon E8950
    GPU NameGP104 ()vsAmethyst (E8950)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs366 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvs5,000 million
    Shaders2560vs2048
    Compute Units20vs32
    Core clock1556 MHzvs735 MHz
    ROPs64vs32
    TMUs160vs128

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon E8950
    Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed1251 MHz
    10008 MHz effective    		vs1500 MHz
    6000 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs8192 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1080 MobileRadeon E8950
    TDP150 wattsvs95 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs29 Sep 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      99.60 GP/s
    • Radeon E8950
      23.52 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      249.00 GT/s
    • Radeon E8950
      94.10 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      320.00 GB/s
    • Radeon E8950
      192.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile
      7967.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon E8950
      3010.60 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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