NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
VS
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
VS
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

410
Place in performance rating
385
Maxwell
Architecture
Vega
GM107
Code name
Vega
Laptop
Type
Laptop
12 March 2014 (7 years ago)
Release date
7 January 2020 (1 year ago)
$163
Price now
$287
4.01
Value for money
11.03
N15P-GT
GPU code name
Vega
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

640
Pipelines
320
no data
Boost Clock
1400 MHz
1,870 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
45 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
no data
36.08
Texture fill rate
no data
1,155 gflops
Floating-point performance
no data
640
CUDA cores
no data
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
no data
Boost clock speed
1400 MHz
1,870 million
Number of transistors
no data
45 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
no data

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
no data
medium sized
Laptop size
no data
+
SLI options
no data
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Bus support
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 can be seen in this section.

DDR3, GDDR5
Memory type
no data
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
no data
128 Bit
Memory bus width
no data
80.0 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
no data
-
Shared memory
-
DDR3 or GDDR5
Standard memory configuration
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
no data
+
HDMI
no data
Up to 2048x1536
VGA аnalog display support
no data
Up to 3840x2160
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
no data
Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support
no data
Up to 1920x1200
LVDS signal support
no data
+
HDCP content protection
no data
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
no data
+
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
no data

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 is the additional functionality.

+
GPU Boost
no data
+
CUDA
no data
+
GeForce Experience
no data
+
Optimus
no data
+
Ansel
no data
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
no data
+
BatteryBoost
no data
+
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
no data
+
FXAA
no data
+
TXAA
no data
+
Adaptive VSync
no data
+
3D Blu-Ray
no data
+
Direct Compute
no data

API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 12_1
4.5
OpenGL
no data
1.1.126
Vulkan
no data
5.1
Shader Model
no data
1.1
OpenCL
no data

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M or AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 64.1 24 15.2
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5
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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Cheaper ($163 vs $287)

More pipelines (640 vs 320)

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX Vega 5

0.48% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (7 nm vs 28 nm)

So, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M or AMD Radeon RX Vega 5?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 .

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M versus AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Radeon RX Vega 5