AMD Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks
- Interface MXM-B (3.0)
- Core clock speed 735 MHz
- Max video memory 8 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 6000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
AMD started Radeon E8950 sales 29 September 2015. This is GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 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.
We have no data on Radeon E8950 benchmark results.
General info
Of Radeon E8950's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | not rated | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Amethyst | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 29 September 2015 (6 years ago) |
Technical specs
Radeon E8950's general performance parameters 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 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 735 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Number of transistors | 5,000 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 128.0 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 4,096 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon E8950's 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).
| 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 don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| 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 video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| 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 |
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon E8950 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 780.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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