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
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 1267 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
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 216
  • 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 216
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

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
7447
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
Name NVIDIA GeForce 930A AMD Radeon HD 8850M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1267 973
PassMark - G2D Mark 216 502
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

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell GCN 1.0
Code name GM108 Venus
Launch date 13 March 2015 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating 925 928
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series

Technical info

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

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.4

Memory

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