Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce 8800M GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8850M vs GeForce 8800M GTX
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
GeForce 8800M GTX
476
Radeon HD 8850M
GeForce 8800M GTX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Venus
NB8E-GTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-HE
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
-
Core clock speed
575 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
96
Power consumption (TDP)
-
65 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
24.00
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A