Radeon HD 8950M: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 8950M sales 14 May 2013. This is a laptop graphics card based on a GCN 2.0 architecture and made with 28 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.38 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 88 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 100 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon HD 8950M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Saturn | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 14 May 2013 (12 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Radeon HD 8950M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 8950M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 768 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1075 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 2,080 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 51.60 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.651 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 8950M 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 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 8950M: 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 | 2 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1375 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 88 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 8950M. 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 HD 8950M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8950M is GeForce GTX 980M.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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