AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580X 8 GB 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

2318 points
267% significantly better overall score
630 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS
35 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

35 FPS
25 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

51 FPS
42 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

19 FPS
11 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points
316% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

41822 points
317% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256 GB/s
699% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32.03 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W
45 W
311% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s
197% significantly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s
434% significantly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304
259% significantly more shading units
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144
259% significantly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

189th of 586
304th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500X Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 March
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon RX 580X vs GeForce GTX 850M comparison

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580X graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 850M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 580X at 185 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 580X over the GeForce GTX 850M.

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