AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro 7000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM and NVIDIA Quadro 7000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

• Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
• Around 31% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 651 MHz
• 2.5x more texture fill rate: 103.6 GTexel / s vs 41.66 GTexel / s
• 3.5x more pipelines: 1792 vs 512
• 2.5x better floating-point performance: 3,315 gflops vs 1,332 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 2% lower typical power consumption: 200 Watt vs 204 Watt
• Around 47% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 3404 MHz
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 40.311 vs 32.699
• Around 24% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 64.205 vs 51.693
• Around 65% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 181.508 vs 110.277

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 7000

• 2x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 3 GB
• Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3505 vs 2806
• Around 7% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 397 vs 372
• Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1142.156 vs 795.334
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.796 vs 3.328

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro 7000

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2806 3505
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	372 397
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	40.311 32.699
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	795.334 1142.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.328 3.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	64.205 51.693
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	181.508 110.277
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3705 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3348 3353

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