AMD Radeon E8950 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5725 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 8% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 680 MHz
23.5x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
17.1x more pipelines: 2048 vs 120
25.1x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
3.8x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 1 January 2009
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 120
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
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
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	65.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	326.391
PassMark - G3D Mark		219
PassMark - G2D Mark		405

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale
Code name	Amethyst	M86
Launch date	29 September 2015	1 January 2009
Place in performance rating	732	387
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops	163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2048	120
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		0