AMD Radeon HD 8850M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8850M and NVIDIA GeForce 9100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 15% higher core clock speed: 575 MHz vs 500 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
• 11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 973 vs 82
• Around 46% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 345
• 4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3323 vs 795
• 4.2x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3323 vs 795

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9100

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	973 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	502 345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3323 795

Compare specifications (specs)