AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

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AMD Radeon R9 M385

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M385 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1000MHz 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)

Radeon R9 M385 +49%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

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GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

902 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

936 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

640

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

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1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

GM107

Strato XT

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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