Comparison of Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce GTX 950

Attribute	GeForce GTX 950 ×	Radeon HD 8850M ×
GPU
Release year (year)	2015	2013
Reference card	-	AMD Radeon HD 8850M 575 MHz 2 GB
GPU brand	Nvidia	AMD
GPU name	GM206	Venus
Market	Desktop	Laptop
Clock speed (MHz)	1,024	725
Turbo clock speed (MHz)	1,188	775
Is dual GPU	-	-
Model	GeForce GTX 950	Radeon HD 8850M
Memory
Memory (MB)	2,048	2,048
Memory bandwidth (GB/s)	105.8	72
Memory bus (bit)	128	128
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory clock speed (MHz)	1,653	1,125
Effective memory clock speed (MHz)	6,612	4,500
Noise and power
TDP (W)	90	-
Raw performance
Pixel rate (GPixel/s)	32.8	12.4
Render output processors	32	16
Texture mapping units	48	40
Shading units	768	640
Floating-point performance (GFLOPS)	1,573	992
Compute units	-	10
Texture rate (GTexel/s)	49.2	31
Benchmarks
Bioshock Infinite	-	16.9
Battlefield 4	48	-
Face detection (mPixels/s)	60.21	19.64
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0)	3355.2	3028.4
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0)	3711.68	2852.7
Bitcoin mining (mHash/s)	214.87	84.38
Sky Diver Factor	302.89	147.45
Thief	40.4	11.5
Fire Strike Factor	44.05	17.08