AMD Radeon R9 M470X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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AMD Radeon R9 M470X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X 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 M470X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1100MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470X +70%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X

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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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1100 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

640

56

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM107

Emerald 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

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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