NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

AMD Radeon HD 8850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

AMD Radeon HD 8850M 's Advantages

Boost Clock625MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M +44%

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8850M

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Radeon HD 8850M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 800M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Venus

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Venus PRO (216-0846009)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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