UHD Graphics 770 vs Radeon HD 8950M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated577
Place by popularitynot in top-10028
Power efficiencyno data28.38
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameSaturnRaptor Lake GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date14 May 2013 (11 years ago)27 September 2022 (2 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 cores768256
Core clock speed1075 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1650 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate51.6026.40
Floating-point processing power1.651 TFLOPS0.8448 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4816

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
Widthno dataIGP

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 amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth88 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 ConnectorsNo outputsMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2013 27 September 2022
Chip lithography 28 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics 770 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 180% more advanced lithography process, and 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8950M and UHD Graphics 770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8950M is a notebook card while UHD Graphics 770 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8950M
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