AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL, 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

909 points

263% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

24 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

12 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

16 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

4 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points

20414 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points

22274 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points

19350 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points

22280 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

931 MHz

9% slightly higher core clock speed

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

270th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

HBM2

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 RX Vega M GL specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX Vega M GL GPU is faster than the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming.

The Radeon RX Vega M GL has a slightly 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.

In addition, the Radeon RX Vega M GL has a significantly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX Vega M GL is better than the Radeon HD 8950.