AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 47% higher core clock speed: 735 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm

Launch date	29 September 2015 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	735 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

2.4x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 95 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Name	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
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 - G2D Mark		308
PassMark - G3D Mark		79

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon E8950	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 3.0	Tesla
Code name	Amethyst	C78
Launch date	29 September 2015	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	734	528
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	735 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	2048
Texture fill rate	128.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	95 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	5,000 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
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