NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 8500M
GPU Comparison
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Benchmark Score
Overall Score
General gaming and workstation score
1219%
significantly better overall score
Flux Core frame rate
Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes
28 FPS
significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
Electron frame rate
Randomly generated noise sphere test
22 FPS
significantly higher Electron frame rate
City frame rate
Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering
17 FPS
significantly higher City frame rate
Clouds frame rate
Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test
17 FPS
significantly higher Clouds frame rate
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Other Benchmarks
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
OpenCL compute benchmark
241%
significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Vulkan compute benchmark
248%
significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
OpenCL compute benchmark
246%
significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
Vulkan compute benchmark
332%
significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
Specifications
Other details
Rank
Ranking in the hardwareDB database
243rd
of 598
508th
of 598
Release date
The official date of release of this chip
2014 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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