AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 7 month(s) later
735x more core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 1 MHz
2.9x more boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 350 MHz
1024x more pipelines: 2048 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 1 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	2048 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
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		13
PassMark - G2D Mark		239

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0
Code name	Amethyst	C67
Launch date	29 September 2015	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	725	728
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	350 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	1 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	2048	2
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	shared Memory
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	192.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1