NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs AMD Radeon HD 8500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8500M, 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
944% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
15 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 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
216% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5860 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6245 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
220% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5611 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
278% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4537 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 586
501st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
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GeForce GTX 1050 vs Radeon HD 8500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1050 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8500M in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1050 over the Radeon HD 8500M.

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