NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8400, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
4039% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

26 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
934% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1796 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
1101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
1179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1404 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
1048% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
1494 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
25 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
1839% significantly higher pixel rate
2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
1112% significantly higher texture rate
4.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
400% significantly more shading units
128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
400% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
555th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 8400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 beats the Radeon HD 8400 in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon HD 8400.

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