Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 vs Radeon HD 8950 OEM

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code name	Tahiti	Tiger Lake Xe
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	8 January 2013 (11 years ago)	15 August 2020 (3 years ago)

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	80
Core clock speed	850 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	4,313 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	200 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	103.6	no data
Floating-point performance	3,315 gflops	no data

Size and compatibility

Information on Radeon HD 8950 OEM and Tiger Lake-U Xe Graphics G4 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). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	no data

Memory

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	DDR4
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	no data
Memory bus width	384 Bit	no data
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB/s	no data
Shared memory	no data	+

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync

no data

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API support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	DirectX 12_1
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	1.2	no data
Vulkan	1.2.131	no data

Advantages and disadvantages

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Recency	8 January 2013	15 August 2020
Chip lithography	28 nm	10 nm

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