AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs ATI FirePro V8800

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM and ATI FirePro V8800 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• Around 3% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 825 MHz
• Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 103.6 GTexel / s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
• Around 12% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1600
• Around 26% better floating-point performance: 3,315 gflops vs 2,640.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 208 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4600 MHz
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2785 vs 2281
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.311 vs 18.27
• 9.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.328 vs 0.357
• Around 30% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 64.205 vs 49.357
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3705 vs 3575
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3705 vs 3575

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V8800

• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 445 vs 364
• 2.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36751 vs 13773
• Around 48% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1180.667 vs 795.334
• Around 26% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 228.843 vs 181.508

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V8800

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2785 2281
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	364 445
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	13773 36751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.311 18.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	795.334 1180.667
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.328 0.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	64.205 49.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	181.508 228.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3356

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