Radeon HD 8950M vs NVS 5200M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1020not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.84no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGF117Saturn
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date1 June 2012 (12 years ago)14 May 2013 (11 years ago)

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 cores96768
Core clock speed625 MHz1075 MHz
Number of transistors585 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)25 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate10.0051.60
Floating-point processing power0.24 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs1648

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceMXMPCIe 3.0 x16

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 typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB2 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s88 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

Supported technologies

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

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2012 14 May 2013
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 25 Watt 100 Watt

NVS 5200M has 300% lower power consumption.

HD 8950M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between NVS 5200M and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 5200M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon HD 8950M is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA NVS 5200M
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