NVIDIA Quadro M1200 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro M1200 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

584 points

133% 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

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

Identical

9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10874 points

16214 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9255 points

19779 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10582 points

13742 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9104 points

12796 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1093 MHz

28% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

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

45 W

400% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

312th of 586

399th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro M1200 vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Quadro M1200 beats the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming performance.

The Quadro M1200 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Quadro M1200 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 M1200 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 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 Quadro M1200 over the Radeon HD 8950.