Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 14.15% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
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 | 343 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Amethyst | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 29 September 2015 (8 years ago) |
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 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| 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 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 6000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
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.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon E8950 is GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.
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