AMD Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks
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 MXM Module card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 95 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 26.10 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile.
General info
Of Radeon E8950's architecture, market type and release date.
Architecture
GCN 3.0
Code name
Amethyst
Type
Desktop
Release date
29 September 2015
Technical specs
Radeon E8950's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core 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.
Transistor count
5,000 million
of 21100
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
of 7
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)
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
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
of 14000
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon E8950.
Display Connectors
No outputs
API support
APIs supported by Radeon E8950, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon E8950. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
26.10
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon E8950. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
326 Mh/s
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon E8950 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon E8950 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon E8950 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 580, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 4 positions in our rating.
