AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 8950 OEM sales 8 January 2013. This is a desktop graphics card based on a GCN 1.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 240.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 200 Watt.

We have no data on Radeon HD 8950 OEM benchmark results.

General info

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8950 OEM: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code nameTahiti
Market segmentDesktop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years old)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 8950 OEM's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8950 OEM's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed850 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed925 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors4,313 millionof 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)200 Wattof 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate103.6of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)
Floating-point performance3,315 gflopsof 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Size and compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 8950 OEM 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm
Width2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8950 OEM: 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 amount3 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width384 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed5000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 8950 OEM. 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI+

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 8950 OEM, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.1
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL1.2
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 8950 OEM. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


We have no data on Radeon HD 8950 OEM benchmark results.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8950 OEM is GeForce GTX 770.

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