Radeon HD 8950M vs ATI IGP 340M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1605not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameRS200Saturn
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date5 October 2002 (23 years ago)14 May 2013 (12 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 cores2768
Core clock speed183 MHz1075 MHz
Boost clock speed180 MHzno data
Number of transistors30 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rate0.3751.60
Floating-point processing powerno data1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs216
TMUs248
L1 Cacheno data192 KB
L2 Cacheno data256 KB

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).

InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR5
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared128 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1375 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data88 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX7.012 (12_0)
Shader Modelno data6.3
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 October 2002 14 May 2013
Chip lithography 180 nm 28 nm

HD 8950M has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 543% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon IGP 340M and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.

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