Radeon E8950: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon E8950 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 13.70% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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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 ranking | 400 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 10.26 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) | |
| GPU code name | Amethyst | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 29 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 cores | 2048 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000) |
| Core clock speed | 735 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 5,000 million | of 153,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI300) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 95 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 128.0 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 4.096 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1500 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 192.0 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK compatibility
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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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 6 positions in our ranking.
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