Radeon E8950 and Mars - video card comparison

Radeon E8950

Mars

Architecture

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Amethyst

Mars

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2015

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Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Boost clock speed

1000 MHz

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Core clock speed

735 MHz

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Floating-point performance

4,096 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

5,000 million

950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

384

Power consumption (TDP)

95 Watt

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Texture fill rate

128.0

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Memory type

GDDR5

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Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

192.0 GB/s

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.170