GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which comes with core clock speeds of 1247 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX Vega 64		21986 points
GeForce GTX 850M		3340 points
	Difference: 18646 (558%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 850M		40 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 64		295 Watts
	Difference: 255 Watts (638%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX Vega 64 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 850M overall. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		495411 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		32000 MB/sec
	Difference: 463411 (1448%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 will be a lot (about 811%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 850M. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		319232 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		35040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 284192 (811%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 is quite a bit (about 469%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 850M, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		79808 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 850M		14016 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 65792 (469%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.