GeForce GTX 750 v2 vs Radeon HD 8850M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking823not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameVenusGM206
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2013 (11 years ago)17 November 2015 (8 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640512
Core clock speed575 MHz1038 MHz
Boost clock speed625 MHz1188 MHz
Number of transistors1,500 million2,940 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Texture fill rate25.0038.02
Floating-point processing power0.8 TFLOPS1.217 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs4032

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth32 GB/s80.19 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12.0 (12_1)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 2013 17 November 2015

GTX 750 v2 has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8850M and GeForce GTX 750 v2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8850M is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 750 v2 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8850M
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