Radeon HD 8950M vs GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	325	not rated
Place by popularity	5	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	13.69	no data
Power efficiency	15.17	no data
Architecture	Pascal (2016−2021)	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name	GP107	Saturn
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	25 October 2016 (8 years ago)	14 May 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$139	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	768	768
Core clock speed	1291 MHz	1075 MHz
Boost clock speed	1392 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	3,300 million	2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	100 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	97 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	66.82	51.60
Floating-point processing power	2.138 TFLOPS	1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	16
TMUs	48	48

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	7008 MHz	1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth	112 GB/s	88 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
HDMI	+	-
G-SYNC support	+	-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready	+	no data
Ansel	+	-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (12_0)
Shader Model	6.4	6.3
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.0
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	25 October 2016	14 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	100 Watt

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