GeForce GTX 950 LP and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 950 LP
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
GM206
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2016
August 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1188 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1024 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,825 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
768
-
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
57.02
2.200
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6612 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
105.8 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12.0
8.1
CUDA
5.2
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
-
N/A