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
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 vs 27 March 2013 |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 150 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 vs 3585 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 vs 3585 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2957 vs 2116 |
| 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: 4764 vs 1050
- 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
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Core clock speed | 950 MHz vs 902 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 76 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1280 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 2,432 gflops vs 1,198 gflops |
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB vs 2 GB |
| Memory clock speed | 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 4764 vs 1050 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 5116 vs 3351 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 5116 vs 3351 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Sky 500
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon Sky 500 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1050 | 4764 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 551 | 551 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 | 3585 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 | 3585 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2957 | 2116 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 2957 | 2116 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 | 5116 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 | 5116 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 74902 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 54.669 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1096.68 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 5.352 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 89.633 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 247.642 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon Sky 500 | |
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| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM107 | Pitcairn |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 | 27 March 2013 |
| Place in performance rating | 506 | 510 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
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| Boost clock speed | 936 MHz | |
| Core clock speed | 902 MHz | 950 MHz |
| Floating-point performance | 1,198 gflops | 2,432 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 640 | 1280 |
| Texture fill rate | 37.44 GTexel / s | 76 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 150 Watt |
| Transistor count | 1,870 million | 2,800 million |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DisplayPort |
| DisplayPort count | 1 | |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Form factor | Full Height / Full Length | |
| Length | 242 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 12.0 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 154 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
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