CMP 50HX vs Radeon E8950

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking364not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.33no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameAmethystTU102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date29 September 2015 (9 years ago)24 June 2021 (3 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 cores20483584
Core clock speed735 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speed1000 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate128.0296.6
Floating-point processing power4.096 TFLOPS11.07 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs128192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s560.0 GB/s

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 September 2015 24 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 250 Watt

Radeon E8950 has 163.2% lower power consumption.

CMP 50HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E8950 and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon E8950 is a notebook card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


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