NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 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 GTX 850M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
• Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
• Around 44% better floating-point performance: 1,155 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
• 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2516 vs 973
• Around 30% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9688 vs 7447
• Around 92% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 37.761 vs 19.641
• Around 20% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.428 vs 2.018
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 38.889 vs 31.637
• Around 79% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 151.016 vs 84.378
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3817 vs 2286
• Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3685 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3323
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3817 vs 2286
• Around 32% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3685 vs 2795
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3323

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 226
• Around 12% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 435.842 vs 388.248

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2516 973
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	226 502
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	9688 7447
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	37.761 19.641
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	388.248 435.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.428 2.018
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	38.889 31.637
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	151.016 84.378
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3323

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