AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 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

593 points
630 points
6% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS
9 FPS
3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
979 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points
104.65 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points
10030 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points
9370 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points
10013 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
Identical
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s
10% slightly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s
77% significantly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512
640
25% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

32
40
25% slightly more texture mapping units

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

310th of 586
303rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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 8 vs GeForce GTX 850M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 850M GPU is faster than the Radeon Vega 8 in gaming.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 850M is better than the Radeon Vega 8.

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