AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +32%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

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GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

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

14.43 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM107

Emerald PRO

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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