Radeon HD 8950M vs RX 550 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking549not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation4.47no data
Power efficiency10.04no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameLexaSaturn
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 July 2017 (7 years ago)14 May 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$79.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores640768
Core clock speed1100 MHz1075 MHz
Boost clock speed1287 MHzno data
Number of transistors2,200 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate51.4851.60
Floating-point processing power1.647 TFLOPS1.651 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4048

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
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 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.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.46.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 July 2017 14 May 2013
Chip lithography 14 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt

RX 550 Mobile has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 550 Mobile and Radeon HD 8950M. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile
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