GeForce 840M and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 840M vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 840M
1121
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 840M
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
N15S-GT
R200
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
August 2001
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
1124 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1029 MHz
275 MHz
Floating-point performance
863.2 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
-
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
-
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
23 Watt
Texture fill rate
17.98
2.200
Memory type
DDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_0)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.5
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-