AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, 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

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points

203% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

5341 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4929 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

5148 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points

169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4748 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

65 W

246% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

399th of 586

408th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

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 Radeon R5 340X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon HD 8950 GPU is faster than the Radeon R5 340X in gaming.

In addition, the Radeon R5 340X has a significantly lower TDP at 65 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.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon HD 8950 over the Radeon R5 340X.

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