Radeon HD 8850M vs GeForce GTX 950M
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8850M |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8850M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Venus (Venus PRO) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,500 million | vs | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 575 MHz | vs | 993 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8850M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8850M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon HD 8850M
10.00 GP/s
GeForce GTX 950M
15.89 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8850M
25.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 950M
39.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8850M
32.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 950M
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8850M
800.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 950M
1271.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better