AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M, 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

584 points

1% slightly better overall score

575 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

11 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

Identical

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

101.04 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

10170 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

9069 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

9820 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

8825 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

993 MHz

230% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1124 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

17.98 Gigapixels/s

12% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

42% slightly higher texture rate

44.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

640

25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 597

324th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 950M specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon Vega 8 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 950M has a significantly 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. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 8 is faster than the GeForce GTX 950M.