AMD Radeon R9 M360 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare AMD Radeon R9 M360 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

213 points

250 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

6 FPS

7 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

3 FPS

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

4 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

1 FPS

3 FPS

1 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9392 points

16214 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10902 points

19779 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8277 points

13742 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

7905 points

12796 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

5% slightly higher core clock speed

850 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

4 GiB

33% slightly more memory

3 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 586

398th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

Radeon R9 M360 vs Radeon HD 8950 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon HD 8950 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 M360 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon R9 M360 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.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the Radeon R9 M360 has slightly more memory with 4 GiB of memory compared to 3 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon HD 8950 is better than the Radeon R9 M360.