AMD Radeon E8950 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 7% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 2x 960
Around 33% better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 2x 1,536.0 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 254 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 2 GB
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 4200 MHz
8.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 6.633 vs 0.789

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 19 September 2011
Pipelines	2048 vs 2x 960
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops vs 2x 1,536.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt vs 254 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 2 GB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 4200 MHz
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633 vs 0.789

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

Around 9% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 735 MHz
Around 86% higher texture fill rate: 2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 128.0 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 735 MHz
Texture fill rate	2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 128.0 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)

GPU 1

GPU 2

6.633

0.789

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	66.837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1369.722
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	6.633	0.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
Geekbench - OpenCL		3977
PassMark - G2D Mark		373
PassMark - G3D Mark		2534

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	Amethyst	Barts
Launch date	29 September 2015	19 September 2011
Place in performance rating	725	726
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops	2x 1,536.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	2048	2x 960
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	2x 38.4 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	254 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	1,700 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 2 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	2x 134.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	4200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5