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.

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

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		3808
PassMark - G2D Mark		422
Geekbench - OpenCL		12778
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	725
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