AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Sky 700

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

AMD Radeon Sky 700

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

AMD Radeon Sky 700 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM +2%

3.315 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

3.226 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

Radeon Sky 700

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

225W

550 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Tahiti

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

2

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

3

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 4650 AGP

4

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

5

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs Intel Arc A310

6

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti OEM

7

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro V620

8

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA P106 100

9

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 PCI

10

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330 OEM

Related News

1

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

2

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

3

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

4

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

5

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

6

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

7

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

8

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

9

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

10

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim