UHD Graphics vs Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated604
Place by popularitynot in top-1007
Power efficiencyno data38.24
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameTahitiJasper Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)11 January 2021 (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 cores1792256
Core clock speed850 MHz350 MHz
Boost clock speed925 MHz750 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt10 Watt
Texture fill rate103.612.00
Floating-point processing power3.315 TFLOPS0.384 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs11216

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16Ring Bus
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.16.4
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2013 11 January 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 10 Watt

UHD Graphics has an age advantage of 8 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 1900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8950 OEM and UHD Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8950 OEM is a desktop card while UHD Graphics is a notebook one.


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