NVIDIA GeForce 840M vs AMD Radeon HD 8650G

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 840M and AMD Radeon HD 8650G videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 840M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 10 month(s) later
• Around 93% higher core clock speed: 1029 MHz vs 533 MHz
• Around 56% higher boost clock speed: 1124 MHz vs 720 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 32 nm
• 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1087 vs 526
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 138
• 3.1x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5620 vs 1796
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2085 vs 736
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2736 vs 2062
• 2.8x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2085 vs 736
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2736 vs 2062

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8650G

• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3191
• Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 840M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8650G

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1087 526
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	149 138
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5620 1796
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2085 736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2736 2062
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3191 3353

Compare specifications (specs)