NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1250MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +675%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 2017

GeForce 800M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

640

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Vega 10

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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