Radeon HD 8950M vs GeForce 8800M GTX SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking881not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.08no data
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNB8E-GTXSaturn
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 November 2007 (17 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 cores192768
Core clock speed500 MHz1075 MHz
Number of transistors1508 Million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.60
Floating-point processing powerno data1.651 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data48

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount512 MB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data88 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1012 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data2.0
Vulkan-1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 November 2007 14 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 100 Watt

HD 8950M has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 30% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 8800M GTX SLI and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX SLI
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AMD Radeon HD 8950M
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