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Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M
GPUBoss recommends the Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M based on its gaming, benchmarks and compute performance.
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Released March, 2014
Nvidia GeForce GTX 850M
- 902 MHz
- 2 GB DDR3
6.5 Out of 10
by Tim-Verry (Jun, 2013)These chips are still based on Kepler (600-series), but feature more CUDA cores, more memory, a wider memory bus, and faster clockspeeds.
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Released March, 2014
Nvidia GeForce 840M
- 1 GHz
- 1 GB DDR3
6 Out of 10
by Dustin-Sklavos (Mar, 2012)We're not sure exactly how this is done, but it's essentially a GPU version of the Turbo Boost and Turbo Core technologies we've seen from Intel and AMD CPUs for some time.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 850M vs 840M among Laptop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Value | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.5 | Overall Score |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 16,135 | vs | 10,332 | More than 55% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
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| Better 3DMark vantage graphics score | 14,358.5 | vs | 6,627 | Around 2.2x better 3DMark vantage graphics score | |||
| Better 3DMark06 score | 4,385.5 | vs | 2,338 | Around 90% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much higher diablo III framerate | 61 fps | vs | 17.7 fps | Around 3.5x higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Better PassMark score | 1,499 | vs | 879 | More than 70% better PassMark score | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Much higher hitman: absolution framerate | 14.3 | vs | 6.7 | Around 2.2x higher hitman: absolution framerate | |||
| Much higher crysis 3 framerate | 14 fps | vs | 6.3 fps | Around 2.2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Better manhattan score | 3,715.98 | vs | 2,571 | Around 45% better manhattan score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 36.1 GTexel/s | vs | 16.46 GTexel/s | Around 2.2x higher texture rate | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 14.43 GPixel/s | vs | 8.23 GPixel/s | More than 75% higher pixel rate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 40 | vs | 16 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
| More render output processors | 16 | vs | 8 | Twice as many render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit | 2x wider memory bus | |||
| More shading units | 640 | vs | 384 | 256 more shading units | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 28.4 fps | vs | 13.5 fps | More than 2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Better face detection score | 38.06 mPixels/s | vs | 22.54 mPixels/s | Around 70% better face detection score | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 26.99 | vs | 12.59 | Around 2.2x better fire strike factor score | |||
| Better PassMark direct compute score | 1,215 | vs | 726 | More than 65% better PassMark direct compute score | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 1,029 MHz | vs | 902 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher turbo clock speed | 1,124 MHz | vs | 936 MHz | More than 20% higher turbo clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of GeForce GTX 850M vs 840M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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