NVIDIA Quadro 2000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro 2000 1 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

185 points

250 points

35% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

5 FPS

7 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

3 FPS

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3240 points

16214 points

400% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3896 points

13742 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

625 MHz

850 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

1 GiB

3 GiB

200% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

62 W

262% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

445th of 586

401st of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro 2000 vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8950 graphics card is better than the Quadro 2000 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8950 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.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Radeon HD 8950 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 1 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 Quadro 2000 has a significantly lower TDP at 62 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 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 Radeon HD 8950 over the Quadro 2000.