Intel UHD vs AMD Radeon HD 8950

Compare Intel UHD 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

445 points

78% significantly better overall score

250 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

7 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

7 FPS

9 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5365 points

16214 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

5844 points

19779 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

6608 points

13742 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8337 points

12796 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

850 MHz

183% significantly higher core clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

1399% significantly lower TDP

225 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

342nd of 586

401st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

UHD vs Radeon HD 8950 specs and performance

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

Our database shows that 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 UHD 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the UHD over the Radeon HD 8950.