NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon R9 M385X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A AMD Radeon R9 M385X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M385X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 18% (1100MHz vs 936MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385X +64%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

VS

Radeon R9 M385X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 800A

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

936 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

640

Shading Units

896

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1198 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Strato

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Strato XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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