NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 628 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 42.05 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
  • Around 20% higher pipelines: 768 vs 640
  • Around 26% better floating-point performance: 1,009 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 4008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
  • Around 26% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1226 vs 973
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 March 2014 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed 628 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 42.05 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines 768 vs 640
Floating-point performance 1,009 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1226 vs 973

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

  • Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 725 MHz vs 657 MHz
  • Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 384
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2795 vs 953
  • 2.9x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2795 vs 953
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3323 vs 1552
  • 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3323 vs 1552
Specifications (specs)
Boost clock speed 725 MHz vs 657 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 502 vs 384
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2795 vs 953
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2795 vs 953
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3323 vs 1552
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3323 vs 1552

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1226
973
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
384
502
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
953
2795
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
953
2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1552
3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
1552
3323
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A AMD Radeon HD 8850M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1226 973
PassMark - G2D Mark 384 502
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 953 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 953 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1552 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1552 3323
Geekbench - OpenCL 8067
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2286

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760A AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Code name GK106 Venus
Launch date 17 March 2014 1 April 2013
Place in performance rating 918 919
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 657 MHz 725 MHz
Core clock speed 628 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,009 gflops 800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 768 640
Texture fill rate 42.05 GTexel / s 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 55 Watt
Transistor count 2,540 million 1,500 million
Compute units 10

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
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 64.13 GB / s 32 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4008 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0