NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4 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

2262 points
7978% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
34 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

31 FPS
31 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

28 FPS
28 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

29153 points
1523% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1796 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

34107 points
2182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

29277 points
1985% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1404 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

32348 points
2065% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
1494 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
25 W
480% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

65.97 Gigapixels/s
2648% significantly higher pixel rate
2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

122.5 Gigatexels/s
2452% significantly higher texture rate
4.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1664
1200% significantly more shading units
128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

104
1200% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

56
1300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 586
560th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
-

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 970 vs Radeon HD 8400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8400 in gaming.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a significantly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970 at 145 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 970 over the Radeon HD 8400.

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