NVIDIA GeForce 940MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 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, 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 940MX

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 66% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 575 MHz
• Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 993 MHz vs 725 MHz
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 2000 MHz
• Around 56% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1516 vs 973
• Around 47% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 28.91 vs 19.641
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 103.937 vs 84.378
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2486 vs 2286
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3587 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3323
• Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2486 vs 2286
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3587 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 25 GTexel / s vs 23.83 GTexel / s
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
• Around 5% better floating-point performance: 800.0 gflops vs 762.6 gflops
• 2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 172
• Around 18% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 7447 vs 6325
• Around 39% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 435.842 vs 312.94
• Around 10% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.018 vs 1.83
• Around 14% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 31.637 vs 27.833

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1516 973
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	172 502
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	6325 7447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	28.91 19.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	312.94 435.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1.83 2.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	27.833 31.637
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	103.937 84.378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2486 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3587 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2486 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3587 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3323

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