AMD Radeon HD 8650M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8650M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8650M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 797 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 915 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384

Launch date	10 March 2014 vs 7 January 2013
Core clock speed	797 MHz vs 650 MHz
Boost clock speed	915 MHz vs 700 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 384

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8650M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8650M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
PassMark - G3D Mark		3072
PassMark - G2D Mark		226
Geekbench - OpenCL		10427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		22.828
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		210.585
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.427
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		28.662
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		162.83
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3340
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4938
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3684
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1151

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8650M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN	Kepler
Code name	Mars	GK104
Launch date	7 January 2013	10 March 2014
Place in performance rating	not rated	853
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	700 MHz	915 MHz
Core clock speed	650 MHz	797 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Transistor count	900 million	3,540 million
CUDA cores		1152 or 640
Floating-point performance		1,389 gflops
Texture fill rate		43.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	medium sized
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	1.2	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	No	0
Memory bandwidth		80.0 GB / s
Standard memory configuration		GDDR5
Technologies
Enduro
PowerPlay 7.0
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Zero Core
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536