AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 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
260 points
4% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
Identical
3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points
728% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1958 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points
410% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3874 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4272 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points
213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4078 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz
941 MHz
10% slightly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W
50 W
350% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

398th of 586
396th of 586

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
GDDR5

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 750M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 750M GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 750M 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.

In addition, the GeForce GT 750M has a significantly lower TDP at 50 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 GeForce GT 750M over the Radeon HD 8950.

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