NVIDIA GeForce 930A vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 930A and AMD Radeon HD 8850M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 930A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
- Around 61% higher core clock speed: 928 MHz vs 575 MHz
- Around 30% higher boost clock speed: 941 MHz vs 725 MHz
- Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1263 vs 973
- Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3192 vs 2795
- Around 14% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3192 vs 2795
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3323
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3323
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 13 March 2015 vs 1 April 2013 |
| Core clock speed | 928 MHz vs 575 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 941 MHz vs 725 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1263 vs 973 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3192 vs 2795 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3192 vs 2795 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3357 vs 3323 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3357 vs 3323 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M
- Around 11% higher texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 22.58 GTexel / s
- Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
- Around 11% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
- Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 207
- Around 40% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7447 vs 5317
- Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2286 vs 2081
- Around 10% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2286 vs 2081
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Texture fill rate | 25 GTexel / s vs 22.58 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 640 vs 384 |
| Floating-point performance | 800.0 gflops vs 722.7 gflops |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 502 vs 207 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 7447 vs 5317 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 2286 vs 2081 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 2286 vs 2081 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 930A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce 930A | AMD Radeon HD 8850M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1263 | 973 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 207 | 502 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 5317 | 7447 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 2081 | 2286 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 2081 | 2286 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3192 | 2795 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3192 | 2795 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3357 | 3323 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3357 | 3323 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 19.641 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 435.842 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 2.018 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 31.637 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 84.378 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce 930A | AMD Radeon HD 8850M | |
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| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM108 | Venus |
| Launch date | 13 March 2015 | 1 April 2013 |
| Place in performance rating | 913 | 915 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series | |
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| Boost clock speed | 941 MHz | 725 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 928 MHz | 575 MHz |
| Floating-point performance | 722.7 gflops | 800.0 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 384 | 640 |
| Texture fill rate | 22.58 GTexel / s | 25 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 33 Watt | |
| Compute units | 10 | |
| Transistor count | 1,500 million | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
| Laptop size | large | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 11 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB / s | 32 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |