AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, 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

33119 points

13147% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

787 FPS

779 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

382 FPS

376 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

567 FPS

558 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

318 FPS

315 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points

318192 points

2215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points

273214 points

2035% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

2235 MHz

162% significantly higher core clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

3 GiB

24 GiB

700% significantly more memory

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

100% significantly lower TDP

450 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 586

2nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

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 RTX 4090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8950 in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 4090 has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8950 has a significantly lower TDP at 225 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4090 at 450 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 is better than the Radeon HD 8950.