AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking87not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money100.00no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLITahiti
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (7 years old)8 January 2013 (11 years old)
Current price$274 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores40961792
Core clock speed1443 MHz850 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors14400 Million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data103.6
Floating-point performanceno data3,315 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 8950 OEM compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin
SLI options+no data

Memory

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz5000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data240.0 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Video outputs and ports

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 data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMIno data+
G-SYNC support+no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API support

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

DirectX12_112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan+1.2.131
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 16 August 2016 8 January 2013
Chip lithography 16 nm 28 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 8950 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon HD 8950 OEM is a desktop one.


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