AMD Radeon HD 8850M
VS
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
AMD Radeon HD 8850M
VS
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

659
Place in performance rating
501
GCN
Architecture
Gen. 9.5 Kaby Lake
Venus
Code name
Kaby Lake GT3e
Laptop
Type
Laptop
18 December 2012 (8 years ago)
Release date
3 January 2017 (4 years ago)
$338
Price now
$949
0.20
Value for money
1.25
Venus
GPU code name
Kaby Lake GT3e
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

640
Pipelines
384
575 MHz
Core clock speed
300 MHz
625 MHz
Boost Clock
1150 MHz
1,500 million
Transistor count
189 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
15 Watt
25.00
Texture fill rate
55.20
800.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
883 gflops
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
725 MHz
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
1,500 million
Number of transistors
189 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
15 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x1
large
Laptop size
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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 Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 can be seen in this section.

GDDR5, DDR3
Memory type
DDR3L/LPDDR3/DDR4
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
32 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
64/128 Bit
4500 MHz
Memory clock speed
no data
32 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
+

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 is the additional functionality.

no data
Quick Sync
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
no data
Vulkan
1.1.103
no data
Shader Model
6.4
no data
OpenCL
2.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8850M and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 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 Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8850M
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
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 $949)

More pipelines (640 vs 384)

Advantages of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650

3.63% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (32 GB vs 2 GB)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8850M or Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 .

AMD Radeon HD 8850M versus Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 performance benchmarks comparison

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