AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs AMD Radeon Vega 11

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs AMD Radeon Vega 11, 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

658 points

163% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

7 FPS

14 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS

11 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS

13 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

12376 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

12402 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

13344 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points

16804 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

850 MHz

183% significantly higher core clock speed

300 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W

15 W

1399% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

399th of 586

297th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

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 Vega 11 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 11 beats the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon HD 8950 has a significantly 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 Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 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 Vega 11 is better than the Radeon HD 8950.