AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon E8950 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon E8950

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 1% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 993 MHz
  • Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 128.0 GTexel / s vs 127.1 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1536
  • Around 34% better floating-point performance: 4,096 gflops vs 3,050 gflops
  • Around 28% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 122 Watt
  • Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 66.837 vs 46.273
  • Around 76% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1369.722 vs 777.677
  • Around 69% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 6.633 vs 3.914
  • Around 72% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 65.836 vs 38.196
  • 4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 326.391 vs 82.511
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 September 2015 vs 12 March 2014
Boost clock speed 1000 MHz vs 993 MHz
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s vs 127.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1536
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops vs 3,050 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt vs 122 Watt
Benchmarks
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 66.837 vs 46.273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1369.722 vs 777.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.633 vs 3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 65.836 vs 38.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 326.391 vs 82.511

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

  • Around 30% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 735 MHz
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 735 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon E8950
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
66.837
46.273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1369.722
777.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
6.633
3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
65.836
38.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)
GPU 1
GPU 2
326.391
82.511
Name AMD Radeon E8950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 66.837 46.273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1369.722 777.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 6.633 3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 65.836 38.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 326.391 82.511
PassMark - G3D Mark 3818
PassMark - G2D Mark 333
Geekbench - OpenCL 15023
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1611

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon E8950 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Kepler
Code name Amethyst GK104
Launch date 29 September 2015 12 March 2014
Place in performance rating 771 773
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz 993 MHz
Core clock speed 735 MHz 954 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,096 gflops 3,050 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 1536
Texture fill rate 128.0 GTexel / s 127.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 Watt 122 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 3,540 million
CUDA cores 1536

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 192.0 GB / s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA