NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A vs AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 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 950A

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 59% higher core clock speed: 914 MHz vs 575 MHz
• Around 37% higher boost clock speed: 993 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 59% higher texture fill rate: 39.72 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
• Around 59% better floating-point performance: 1,271 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
• 2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2557 vs 973
• Around 38% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 10292 vs 7447

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8850M

• Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 502 vs 258
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 2286 vs 1973
• Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 2286 vs 1973
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2795 vs 2188
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2795 vs 2188
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3323 vs 3289
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3323 vs 3289

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8850M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2557 973
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	258 502
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	10292 7447
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1973 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1973 2286
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2188 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2188 2795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3289 3323
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3289 3323

Compare specifications (specs)