AMD Radeon Vega 11 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 11 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

658 points
4% slightly better overall score
630 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

14 FPS
2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

13 FPS
4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS
9 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.66 points
104.65 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12376 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12402 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13344 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16804 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

11.2 Gigapixels/s
14.43 Gigapixels/s
28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s
70% significantly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

704
10% slightly more shading units
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

44
10% slightly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

8
16
100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

298th of 586
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

Radeon Vega 11 vs GeForce GTX 850M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon Vega 11 beats the GeForce GTX 850M in gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 11 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 850M at 45 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Radeon Vega 11 is faster than the GeForce GTX 850M.

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