AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

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AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile 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 RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1074MHz vs 936MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +267%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Mar 2014

Mobility Radeon

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

902 MHz

1074 MHz

Boost Clock

936 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

640

128

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

34.37 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

137.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

4.399 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.399 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

274.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GM107

Ellesmere PRO

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

85W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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