Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon E8950 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 12.36% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started Radeon E8950 sales 29 September 2015. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 3.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 192.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 95 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking415
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency10.48of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameAmethyst
Market segmentLaptop
Release date29 September 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores2048of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed735 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Boost clock speed1000 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate128.0of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs128of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache512 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & 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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1500 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

Radeon E8950
12.36

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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.

Closest competitors

Radeon E8950's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon E8950 is GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q, which is slower by 3% and lower by 7 positions in our ranking.

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