AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
850x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 1 MHz
2.6x more boost clock speed: 925 MHz vs 350 MHz
896x more pipelines: 1792 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
214.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2793 vs 13
Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 366 vs 239

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2013 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 1 MHz
Boost clock speed	925 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	1792 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2793 vs 13
PassMark - G2D Mark	366 vs 239

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2793

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

366

239

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2793	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	366	239
Geekbench - OpenCL	13791
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	40.311
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	795.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	64.205
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	181.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3348

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Tahiti	C67
Launch date	8 January 2013	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	722	725
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	925 MHz	350 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1 MHz
Floating-point performance	3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1792	2
Texture fill rate	103.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt
Transistor count	4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0	shared Memory
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		1