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GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon HD 3470 512MB

Intro

The GeForce GTX 850M uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 876 MHz. The DDR3 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 640 SPUs as well as 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 3470 512MB, which features a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 512 MB of GDDR3 memory set to run at 950 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 40(8x5) Stream Processors, 4 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 850M, in theory, should perform a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M 32000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 30400 MB/sec
Difference: 1600 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 850M should be a lot (approximately 995%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M 35040 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 31840 (995%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 850M is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 850M 14016 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 512MB 3200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 10816 (338%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 850M Radeon HD 3470 512MB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 12 2014 2008
Code Name GM107 RV620 PRO
Memory 2048 MB 512 MB
Core Speed 876 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 2000 MHz 1900 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 40 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 32000 MB/sec 30400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 35040 Mtexels/sec 3200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 14016 Mpixels/sec 3200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 640 40(8x5)
Texture Mapping Units 40 4
Render Output Units 16 4
Bus Type DDR3 GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 55 nm
Transistors (Unknown) million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 10.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 3.0

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 850M

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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