AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 730M, 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

250 points

17% slightly better overall score

213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3437 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points

553% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3025 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points

320% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3269 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

33 W

581% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

398th of 586

415th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon HD 8950 vs GeForce GT 730M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8950 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 730M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 730M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon HD 8950 is faster than the GeForce GT 730M.

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