Radeon E8950 vs RX 9060
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Radeon RX 9060 with Radeon E8950, including specs and performance data.
RX 9060 outperforms E8950 by a whopping 273% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 72 | 408 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 28.03 | 10.45 |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 (2025) | GCN 3.0 (2014−2019) |
| GPU code name | Navi 44 | Amethyst |
| Market segment | Desktop | Laptop |
| Release date | 5 August 2025 (recently) | 29 September 2015 (9 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 cores | 1792 | 2048 |
| Core clock speed | 1700 MHz | 735 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2990 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 29,700 million | 5,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 132 Watt | 95 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 334.9 | 128.0 |
| Floating-point processing power | 21.43 TFLOPS | 4.096 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 64 | 32 |
| TMUs | 112 | 128 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 28 | no data |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Width | 2-slot | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin | None |
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 type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 2518 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 322.3 GB/s | 192.0 GB/s |
| Resizable BAR | + | - |
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 Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 2x DisplayPort 2.1a | No outputs |
| HDMI | + | - |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_0) |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2.131 |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 48.57 | 13.03 |
| Recency | 5 August 2025 | 29 September 2015 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 132 Watt | 95 Watt |
RX 9060 has a 272.8% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.
Radeon E8950, on the other hand, has 38.9% lower power consumption.
The Radeon RX 9060 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon E8950 in performance tests.
Be aware that Radeon RX 9060 is a desktop graphics card while Radeon E8950 is a notebook one.
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