NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon Sky 500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and AMD Radeon Sky 500 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 - 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), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3857 vs 3585
• Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3857 vs 3585
• Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2957 vs 2116
• Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2957 vs 2116

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Sky 500

• Around 5% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 902 MHz
• 2x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
• 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
• 2x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4709 vs 1050
• Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 572 vs 551
• Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 5116 vs 3351
• Around 53% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 5116 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Sky 500

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1050 4709
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	551 572
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3857 3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3857 3585
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2957 2116
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2957 2116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 5116
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 5116

Compare specifications (specs)