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Radeon RX 470 and GeForce GTX 850M - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GTX 850M

Radeon RX 470
8339
GeForce GTX 850M
2591

Radeon RX 470

GeForce GTX 850M


Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
Polaris 10 Pro
N15P-GT

Market segment
Desktop
Laptop

Release date
August 2016
March 2014

Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1206 MHz
-

Core clock speed
926 MHz
Up to 936 MHz

CUDA cores
-
640

Floating-point performance
4,940 gflops
1,155 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
640

Power consumption (TDP)
120 Watt
45 Watt

Texture fill rate
154.4
36.08

Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit

Memory clock speed
6600 MHz
Up to 2500 MHz

Memory bandwidth
211.2 GB/s
80.0 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Standard memory configuration
-
DDR3 or GDDR5

Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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 (12_0)
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

OpenCL
2.0
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.5

Shader Model
6.4
5.1

Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126

Ansel
-
+

FreeSync
+
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+

Optimus
-
+

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+