NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4 GB 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

2494 points

897% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

52 FPS

45 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

41 FPS

35 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

36 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

33 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33463 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16214 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41306 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

34611 points

151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13742 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

38178 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12796 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1126 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

165 W

36% slightly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 586

401st 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

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

GeForce GTX 980 vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 980 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 980 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980 has a slightly lower TDP at 165 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 980 is faster than the Radeon HD 8950.