NVIDIA Quadro K1100M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2 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

167 points

250 points

49% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

7 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

6 FPS

4 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

2 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2245 points

16214 points

622% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2664 points

19779 points

642% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3067 points

13742 points

348% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2884 points

12796 points

343% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

716 MHz

850 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

2 GiB

3 GiB

49% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

400% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

453rd of 586

398th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro K1100M vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon HD 8950 beats the Quadro K1100M in gaming performance.

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 2 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K1100M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon HD 8950 is better than the Quadro K1100M.