NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB, 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

129% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points

16214 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points

19779 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points

13742 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points

12796 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

993 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

200% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 586

400th 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

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce GTX 950M vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 950M graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8950 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 950M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 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 8950.