NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

AMD Radeon R5 M230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (32.03GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Boost Clock855MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M +196%

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

640

Shading Units

320

40

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Jet

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

56 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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