AMD Radeon E8950 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430 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 Radeon HD 3430

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 450 MHz
71.1x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
51.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 40
113.8x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 36 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
7.5x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 25 July 2008
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 40
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops vs 36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

7.9x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
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		98
PassMark - G2D Mark		260

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3430
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	TeraScale
Code name	Amethyst	M82
Launch date	29 September 2015	25 July 2008
Place in performance rating	689	687
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops	36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	2048	40
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	12 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	181 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors	None
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	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR2
Shared memory		0