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) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) |
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CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) |
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Name | AMD Radeon E8950 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_0) | 12.0 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Memory |
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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 |
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3D Blu-Ray | ||
BatteryBoost | ||
CUDA | ||
Direct Compute | ||
FXAA | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus | ||
SLI | ||
TXAA |