AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 830A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA GeForce 830A 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • 7x more texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
  • 8x more pipelines: 2048 vs 256
  • 7x better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 588.8 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Launch date 29 September 2015 vs 22 July 2014
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 256
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops vs 588.8 gflops
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 830A

  • Around 47% higher core clock speed: 1082 MHz vs 735 MHz
  • Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 95 Watt
Core clock speed 1082 MHz vs 735 MHz
Boost clock speed 1150 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 830A

Name AMD Radeon E8950 NVIDIA GeForce 830A
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 1138
PassMark - G2D Mark 487
Geekbench - OpenCL 4315
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2889
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2889
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3302

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E8950 NVIDIA GeForce 830A

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Maxwell
Code name Amethyst GM108
Launch date 29 September 2015 22 July 2014
Place in performance rating 732 733
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz 1150 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 1082 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops 588.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 256
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s 18.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 33 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB / s 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz 1800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3