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 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 3854 | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 424 | |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 12821 | |
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 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | GCN 2.0 | Kepler |
Code name | Saturn | GK104 |
Launch date | 14 May 2013 | 11 May 2013 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | 765 |
Type | Desktop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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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 |
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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 | 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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_0) | 12 API |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
Memory |
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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 |
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3D Vision / 3DTV Play | ||
Blu-Ray 3D Support | ||
CUDA | ||
Direct Compute | ||
FXAA | ||
GPU Boost | ||
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
Optimus | ||
TXAA |