NVIDIA Quadro K2000D vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K2000D 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

260 points

4% slightly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

7 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

4 FPS

6 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

9 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

Identical

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3602 points

16214 points

350% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

3916 points

13742 points

250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

954 MHz

12% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

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

51 W

341% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 586

398th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 March

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 K2000D vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

For gaming, the Quadro K2000D graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8950 in our tests.

The Quadro K2000D 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon HD 8950 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 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 K2000D has a significantly lower TDP at 51 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Quadro K2000D over the Radeon HD 8950.