Radeon E8950 and GeForce 8300 GS - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce 8300 GS
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Amethyst
G86
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
April 2007
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
459 MHz
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
14.688 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
8
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
40 Watt
Texture fill rate
128.0
3.672
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A