AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450, 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
7% slightly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 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
3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points
260% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4501 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4880 points

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

398th of 586
408th of 586

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
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Radeon HD 8950 vs GeForce GTS 450 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTS 450 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8950 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTS 450 is better than the Radeon HD 8950.

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