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: 1267 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

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
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 216
• Around 52% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8067 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

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 930A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1267 973
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	216 502
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5317 8067
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2081 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2081 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3192 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3192 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3323

Compare specifications (specs)