Radeon HD 8950M: specs and benchmarks

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 rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameSaturn
Market segmentLaptop
Release date14 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 cores768of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed1075 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors2,080 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology28 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate51.60of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1.651 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs48of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache192 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

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).

InterfacePCIe 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 typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed1375 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth88 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

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 ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.3
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL2.0
Vulkan1.2.131

Benchmark performance

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



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NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 8950M is GeForce GTX 980M.

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