Quadro T1000 vs Radeon HD 8950M

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated322
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data23.35
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameSaturnTU117
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date14 May 2013 (11 years ago)27 May 2019 (5 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 cores768no data
Core clock speed1075 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1455 MHz
Number of transistors2,080 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate51.60no data
Floating-point processing power1.651 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs48no data

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR5no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1375 MHz8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth88 GB/sno data

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)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2013 27 May 2019
Chip lithography 28 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 50 Watt

Quadro T1000 has an age advantage of 6 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8950M and Quadro T1000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8950M is a notebook card while Quadro T1000 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8950M
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