NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

1650 points

560% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

32 FPS

25 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

25 FPS

19 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

22 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

21 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

23785 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

16214 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

26093 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

19779 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

24516 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13742 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

23881 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

12796 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1038 MHz

22% 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

100 W

125% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

230th of 586

398th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 October

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 980M vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

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

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 980M has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce GTX 980M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 980M has a significantly lower TDP at 100 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 980M is faster than the Radeon HD 8950.