Radeon HD 8950M vs FirePro M4000

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	688	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	8.72	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	Chelsea	Saturn
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Laptop
Release date	27 June 2012 (12 years ago)	14 May 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	512	768
Core clock speed	675 MHz	1075 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	100 Watt
Texture fill rate	21.60	51.60
Floating-point processing power	0.6912 TFLOPS	1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	16
TMUs	32	48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Bus support	n/a	no data
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x16
Form factor	MXM-A	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	88 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
StereoOutput3D	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	5.1	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 June 2012	14 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Power consumption (TDP)	33 Watt	100 Watt

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