GeForce GTX 850M and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 850M
Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
Polaris 11
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
January 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 936 MHz
1172 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,155 gflops
2,611 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
60-80 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.08
81.60
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
92.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3 or GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
FreeSync
-
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-