AMD Radeon HD 8850M
VS
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
AMD Radeon HD 8850M
VS
AMD Radeon Pro SSG

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

659
Place in performance rating
116
GCN
Architecture
GCN 5.0
Venus
Code name
Vega 10
Laptop
Type
Workstation
18 December 2012 (8 years ago)
Release date
8 August 2017 (4 years ago)
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
$6,999
$338
Price now
$1499 (0.2x MSRP)
0.20
Value for money
15.14
Venus
GPU code name
Vega 10
Laptop
Market segment
Workstation

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

640
Pipelines
4096
575 MHz
Core clock speed
1440 MHz
625 MHz
Boost Clock
1500 MHz
1,500 million
Transistor count
12,500 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
350 Watt
25.00
Texture fill rate
384.0
800.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
12,288 gflops
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
725 MHz
Boost clock speed
1500 MHz
1,500 million
Number of transistors
12,500 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
350 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
no data
Length
267 mm
no data
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
large
Laptop size
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG can be seen in this section.

GDDR5, DDR3
Memory type
HBM2
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
16 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
2048 Bit
4500 MHz
Memory clock speed
1890 MHz
32 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
483.8 GB/s
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Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
6x mini-DisplayPort

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8850M and AMD Radeon Pro SSG graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8850M or AMD Radeon Pro SSG good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
AMD Radeon Pro SSG
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8850M

Cheaper ($338 vs $1499 (0.2x MSRP))

Advantages of AMD Radeon Pro SSG

44.2% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (4096 vs 640)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (16 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (483.8 GB/s vs 32 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8850M or AMD Radeon Pro SSG?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon Pro SSG .

AMD Radeon HD 8850M versus AMD Radeon Pro SSG performance benchmarks comparison

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