Your Graphics Research
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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon HD 8850M | GeForce 9600M GS |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 528% | 3642% |
| Hitman 3 | 717% | 4768% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 474% | 3322% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 456% | 3211% |
| FIFA 21 | 217% | 1787% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 783% | 5165% |
| Far Cry 6 | 808% | 5314% |
| Genshin Impact | 528% | 3642% |
| Battlefield 6 | 717% | 4768% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 528% | 3642% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 8850M are massively better than the Nvidia GeForce 9600M GS.
The Radeon HD 8850M was released over three years more recently than the GeForce 9600M GS, and so the Radeon HD 8850M is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GeForce 9600M GS when running the latest games.
The Radeon HD 8850M has 1024 MB more video memory than the GeForce 9600M GS, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the Radeon HD 8850M also has superior memory performance overall.
The Radeon HD 8850M has 6.4 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GeForce 9600M GS, which means that the memory performance of the Radeon HD 8850M is marginally better than the GeForce 9600M GS.
The Radeon HD 8850M has 640 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce 9600M GS has 32. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon HD 8850M is 496 and the actual shader performance of the GeForce 9600M GS is 14. The Radeon HD 8850M having 482 better shader performance and an altogether better performance when taking into account other relevant data means that the Radeon HD 8850M delivers a noticeably smoother and more efficient experience when processing graphical data than the GeForce 9600M GS.
The Radeon HD 8850M requires 45 Watts to run and the GeForce 9600M GS requires 20 Watts. The Radeon HD 8850M requires 25 Watts more than the GeForce 9600M GS to run. The difference is not significant enough for the Radeon HD 8850M to have a noticeably larger impact on your yearly electricity bills than the GeForce 9600M GS.
| Core Speed | 625 MHz |  | vs | 430 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | 775 MHz | | vs | - | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.1 Venus PRO | G96 | |||
| OC Potential | Fair |
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| Driver Support | - | vs | - | ||
| Release Date | 01 Apr 2013 | | vs | 03 Jun 2008 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | 7.2
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vs | - | |
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| 1600x900 | 5.5
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vs | - | |
| 1920x1080 | 4.1
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| 2560x1440 | 2.6
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vs | - | |
| 3840x2160 | 1.8
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vs | - | |
| Memory | 2048 MB | | vs | 1024 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 1000 MHz | | vs | 800 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 128 Bit | | vs | | 128 Bit |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | | GDDR3 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | 32GB/sec | | vs | 25.6GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | |
vs | - | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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| Shader Processing Units | 640 | | vs | 32 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 24% | | vs | 1% | |
| Technology | 28nm | | vs | - | |
| Texture Mapping Units | 40 | | vs | - | |
| Texture Rate | 25 GTexel/s | | vs | - | |
| Render Output Units | 16 | | vs | - | |
| Pixel Rate | 10 GPixel/s | | vs | - | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 4096x2160 | | vs | 2560x1600 | |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | - | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | - | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | - | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 45 Watts | vs | | 20 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 11.1 | | vs | 10 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | 4.0 | |
| Open GL | 4.2 | | vs | 2.1 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | no | |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
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| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i5-3360M 2.8GHz | - | |||
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| Recommended RAM | 8 GB | - | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1366x768 | | - | ||
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| Mini Review | Overview Radeon HD 8850M is a Performance Mobile Graphics Card based on the Second Revision of the GCN Architecture. Architecture The GCN 1.1 Release adds support for AMD's TrueAudio Technology which does calculations of audio effects "better" than the CPU and further improves the Powertune Technology. GPU It equips a GPU codenamed Venus PRO which has 10 Compute Units activated and thus offers 640 Shader Processing Units, 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs. The Central Unit Initially Operates at 625MHz and goes up to 775MHz, in Turbo Mode. Memory The GPU accesses a 2GB frame buffer of DDR3, through a 128-bit memory interface. The size of the frame buffer is exaggerated and in no way benefits the GPU. The memory clock operates at 1000MHz. Features DirectX 11.0 Support (11.0 Hardware Default) and support for Crossfire, PowerTune Technology, Eyefinity, App Acceleration, HD3D, ZeroCore Power and other technologies. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 45W, it is suited for 17" or larger laptops. Performance Gaming benchmarks put its performance somewhat above NVIDIA's GeForce GT 750M. System Suggestions We recommend a Decent Processor (Intel Core i5 Mobile) and 8GB of RAM for a system with Radeon HD 8850M. | The NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS GPUs, deliver the ultimate balance between mobility and performance for astounding PureVideo HD technology playback capabilities combined with 3D features to enable visually-intense applications and games. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | ||||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||