AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, 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
232 points
109% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS
6 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
3 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
4 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
2 FPS
2 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
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6245 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5611 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4537 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

496th of 586
407th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 April

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 GT 740M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740M beats the Radeon HD 8500M in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740M over the Radeon HD 8500M.

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