NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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

2494 points

8807% significantly better overall score

28 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

51 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

40 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

33 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

0 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

1763% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

1796 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

2664% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

1494 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

2365% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

1404 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

2455% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

1494 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

25 W

560% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

77.82 Gigapixels/s

3142% significantly higher pixel rate

2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

155.6 Gigatexels/s

3141% significantly higher texture rate

4.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

1500% significantly more shading units

128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

1500% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

1500% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

554th 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon HD 8400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 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 980 at 165 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 is better than the Radeon HD 8400.

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