NVIDIA Quadro P400 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare NVIDIA Quadro P400 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

343 points

37% slightly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

Identical

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

5 FPS

6 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

5 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5692 points

16214 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5511 points

19779 points

258% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5614 points

13742 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5131 points

12796 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1070 MHz

25% 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

30 W

650% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

362nd of 586

401st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.4

Quadro P400 vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Quadro P400 GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

The Quadro P400 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon HD 8950 has significantly more memory with 3 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Quadro P400 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 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 P400 over the Radeon HD 8950.