AMD Radeon R7 M350 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare AMD Radeon R7 M350 4 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 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

176 points

250 points

42% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

4 FPS

7 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

2 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

9 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5924 points

16214 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6960 points

13742 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5649 points

12796 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

17% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

35 W

542% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

450th of 586

398th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 300 Series

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

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon R7 M350 vs Radeon HD 8950 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon HD 8950 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 M350 in gaming.

Our database shows that the Radeon R7 M350 has a slightly 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.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon R7 M350 has slightly more memory with 4 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 R7 M350 has a significantly lower TDP at 35 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon HD 8950 over the Radeon R7 M350.