Comparison of Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce GTX 960M

Attribute	Radeon HD 8850M ×	GeForce GTX 960M ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2013	2015
Reference card	AMD Radeon HD 8850M 575 MHz 2 GB	-
GPU brand	AMD	Nvidia
GPU name	Venus	GM107
Market	Laptop	Laptop
Clock speed (MHz)	725	1,097
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	775	1,176
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	Radeon HD 8850M	GeForce GTX 960M
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	72	80.2
Memory bus (bit)	128	128
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,125	1,253
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	4,500	5,012
Noise and power
^1↑TDP (W)	-	75
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	12.4	17.55
Render output processors	16	16
Texture mapping units	40	40
Shading units	640	640
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	992	1,404
Compute units	10	-
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	31	43.9
Benchmarks
Bioshock Infinite	16.9	-
Battlefield 4	-	33.4
Face detection (mPixels/s)	19.64	54.29
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3028.4	3353.98
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	2852.7	3713.7
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	84.38	174.57
Sky Diver Factor	147.45	260.76
Thief	11.5	27.8
Fire Strike Factor	17.08	32.14