NVIDIA Quadro P500 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA Quadro P500
AMD Radeon HD 8950M
256 Shaders
2GB GDDR5
1519MHz
768 Shaders
2GB GDDR5
1075MHz
Peak AI Performance
3.11 TOPS
INT8
Peak AI Performance
1.65 TFLOPS
FP32
FP32
780 GFLOPS
FP32
1.65 TFLOPS
FP16
10 GFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
18W
TDP
45W
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GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 OpenCL N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Metal N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB6 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL N/A
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GB5 OpenCL N/A
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GB5 CUDA N/A
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GB5 CUDA N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Metal N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan N/A
0%
OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT 2020.1 N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
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OCT Metal N/A
0%
Peak AI Performance
3.11 TOPS
INT8
Peak AI Performance
1.65 TFLOPS
FP32
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FP16
10 GFLOPS
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FP32
780 GFLOPS
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FP32
1.65 TFLOPS
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FP64
20 GFLOPS
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FP64
100 GFLOPS
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INT8
3.11 TOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
24.304 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
17.2 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
24.304 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
51.6 GTexel/s
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2
Family
Quadro P
Family
Radeon HD 8000
Codename
NV138
GP108
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Codename
Bonaire
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Variant
Saturn Pro
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
1/5/2018
Release Date
6/30/2016
Foundry
Samsung
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
14LPP
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Die Size
74 mm²
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Die Size
160 mm²
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Transistor Count
1.8 Billion
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Transistor Count
2.1 Billion
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Transistor Density
24.32M/mm²
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Transistor Density
13.00M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
256 Shaders
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Shading Units
768 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
16 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
48 TMUs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
Render Output Units
16 ROPs
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Streaming Multiprocessors
2 SMs
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Compute Units
12 CUs
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1455MHz Base
1519MHz
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1075MHz
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L1
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48KB/SM
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L1
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16KB/CU
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L2
512KB Shared
L2
256KB Shared
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2GB
GDDR5
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2GB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
64Bit
Bus Width
128Bit
Clock
1253MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
40.1GB/s
Clock
1375MHz
Transfer Rate
5.5GT/s
Bandwidth
88GB/s
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TDP
18W
TDP
45W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
7680x4320
Max Resolution
4096x2160
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
30Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
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FreeSync
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
3
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Content Protection
HDCP 1.4
No Encoders
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Model
VCE 2.0
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
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Model
NVDEC 3
Model
UVD 4.2
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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VP9
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_1
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
6.1
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PureVideo HD
VP8
VDPAU
Feature Set H
Shader Model
6.5
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GFX
7
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Not a Card
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Not a Card
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PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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