Radeon HD 8950 OEM and GeForce GT 1010 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GeForce GT 1010

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Tahiti

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

January 2013

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

None

Boost clock speed

925 MHz

1468 MHz

Core clock speed

850 MHz

Floating-point performance

3,315 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1792

256

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

30 Watt

Texture fill rate

103.6

23.49

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

3 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

240.0 GB/s

40.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI

HDMI

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2