AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8500M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

111 points
630 points
467% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

3 FPS
12 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS
10 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS
9 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS
9 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5860 points
10030 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

6245 points
9370 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

5611 points
10013 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

4537 points
9122 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 586
303rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

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12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

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4.6

Radeon HD 8500M vs GeForce GTX 850M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 850M beats the Radeon HD 8500M in gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 850M is faster than the Radeon HD 8500M.

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