NVIDIA Quadro K5000M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro K5000M 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

510 points

104% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

12 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

7 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

8 FPS

9 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

7 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5107 points

16214 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5107 points

13742 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

706 MHz

850 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

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

327th of 586

399th of 586

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 K5000M vs Radeon HD 8950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro K5000M GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8950 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Quadro K5000M has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the Quadro K5000M 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.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Quadro K5000M is better than the Radeon HD 8950.