NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 8500M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 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

593 points
434% significantly better overall score
111 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
1 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 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

12257 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5860 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
6245 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5611 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4537 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586
494th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
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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 960M vs Radeon HD 8500M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8500M in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 960M over the Radeon HD 8500M.

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