NVIDIA Quadro K4000 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K4000 3 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

427 points

70% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

68 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6816 points

16214 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6504 points

19779 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6816 points

13742 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6876 points

12796 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

Identical

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

181% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

349th 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 K4000 vs Radeon HD 8950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Quadro K4000 beats the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming performance.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that they both have the same amount of memory at 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K4000 has a significantly lower TDP at 80 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 Quadro K4000 is faster than the Radeon HD 8950.