AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M, 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

111 points
315 points
183% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
8 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
6 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
5 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
5 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5860 points
5938 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6245 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
5207 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5611 points
6089 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4537 points
5261 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

501st of 586
370th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

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12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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4.6

Radeon HD 8500M vs GeForce 840M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8500M graphics card is better than the GeForce 840M in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon HD 8500M is better than the GeForce 840M.

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