NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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

575 points
1953% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
9 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

10170 points
466% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1796 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points
507% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points
599% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1404 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points
490% 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

17.98 Gigapixels/s
649% significantly higher pixel rate
2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s
836% 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

16
300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

314th of 586
554th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 8400 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950M graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8400 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 950M is faster than the Radeon HD 8400.

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