AMD Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon E8950 sales 29 September 2015. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 95 Watt.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon E8950: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	290
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name	Amethyst
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	29 September 2015 (7 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon E8950's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon E8950's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed	735 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	5,000 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	128.0	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops	of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon E8950 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Width	MXM Module
Supplementary power connectors	None

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon E8950: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon E8950. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

No outputs

API support

APIs supported by Radeon E8950, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.3
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon E8950. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon E8950. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

326 Mh/s

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon E8950 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Radeon E8950's performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

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