Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 vs Radeon R7 (Carrizo)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking955not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.97no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Gen. 3 (2005)
GPU code nameCarrizoGMA 950
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 June 2015 (10 years ago)1 March 2005 (20 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 cores5124
Boost clock speed800 MHz250 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt7 Watt

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizemedium sizedno 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 bus width64/128 Bitno data
Shared memory+-

API and SDK support

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DirectX12 (FL 12_0)no data

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 1 March 2005
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 7 Watt

R7 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 10 years, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950, on the other hand, has 71.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 (Carrizo) and Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950. We've got no test results to judge.

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