A10 PCIe vs Radeon HD 7950M

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameWimbledonGA102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date24 April 2012 (12 years ago)12 April 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 cores12809216
Core clock speed700 MHz885 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1695 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate56.00488.2
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPS31.24 TFLOPS
ROPs3296
TMUs80288
Tensor Coresno data288
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 amount2 GB24 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz1563 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s600.2 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 24 April 2012 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 24 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 150 Watt

HD 7950M has 100% lower power consumption.

A10 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 250% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7950M and A10 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7950M is a notebook card while A10 PCIe is a workstation one.


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