NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

AMD Radeon HD 8850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 960M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 88% (1176MHz vs 625MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +88%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8850M

0.8 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

VS

Radeon HD 8850M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

575 MHz

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

625 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Venus

N16P-GX-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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