AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 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: 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950M

  • Around 31% higher core clock speed: 1075 MHz vs 823 MHz
  • Around 22% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 122 Watt
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Core clock speed 1075 MHz vs 823 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 122 Watt
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 2500 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

  • Around 98% higher texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 51.6 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 1536 vs 768
  • Around 48% better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Texture fill rate 102.0 GTexel / s vs 51.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 768
Floating-point performance 2,448 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

Name AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3804
PassMark - G2D Mark 422
Geekbench - OpenCL 12815
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 39.934
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 705.616
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.631
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 13.832
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 78.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4868
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1466

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Kepler
Code name Saturn GK104
Launch date 14 May 2013 11 May 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 764
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 1075 MHz 823 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,651 gflops 2,448 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 768 1536
Texture fill rate 51.6 GTexel / s 102.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 122 Watt
Transistor count 2,080 million 3,540 million
Boost clock speed 797 MHz
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 PCIe 3.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Bus support PCI Express 3.0, PCI Express 2.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

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

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 88 GB / s 160.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz 2500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
TXAA

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