Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce GT 650M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8850M vs GeForce GT 650M
Radeon HD 8850M
1002
GeForce GT 650M
1241
Radeon HD 8850M
GeForce GT 650M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Venus
N13E-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
December 2012
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
725 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
575 MHz
Up to 900 MHz
CUDA cores
-
384
Floating-point performance
800.0 gflops
652.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
-
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
Up to 27.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5, DDR3
DDR3\GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1800 - 4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
Up to 80.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
Optimus
-
+