L40S vs Radeon E8950

Place in the ranking	419	77
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	10.55	12.25
Architecture	GCN 3.0 (2014−2019)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Amethyst	AD102
Market segment	Laptop	Workstation
Release date	29 September 2015 (10 years ago)	13 October 2022 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	2048	18176
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1110 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	2520 MHz
Number of transistors	5,000 million	76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	300 Watt
Texture fill rate	128.0	1,431
Floating-point processing power	4.096 TFLOPS	91.61 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	192
TMUs	128	568
Tensor Cores	no data	568
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	142
L1 Cache	512 KB	17.8 MB
L2 Cache	512 KB	48 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	267 mm
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	48 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB/s	864.0 GB/s
Resizable BAR	-	+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.3	6.7
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	3.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9
DLSS	-	+

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	12.99	47.65
Recency	29 September 2015	13 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	48 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	300 Watt

Radeon E8950 has 215.8% lower power consumption.

L40S, on the other hand, has a 266.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

The L40S is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon E8950 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon E8950 is a notebook graphics card while L40S is a workstation one.