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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 Doug-Crowthers (Apr, 2012)Combined with AMD's ZeroCore and Power Gating technology, the HD 7000M series is setting up to be a very power efficient platform.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 850M vs 840M among Laptop GPUs
Gaming | |
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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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| Much higher dead space 3 framerate | 57.85 fps | vs | 24.5 fps | More than 2.2x higher dead space 3 framerate | |||
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| Better 3DMark 11 graphics score | 16,135 | vs | 10,332 | More than 55% better 3DMark 11 graphics score | |||
| 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 | |||
| More memory | 2,048 MB | vs | 1,024 MB | 2x more memory | |||
| Slightly better PassMark score | 1,499 | vs | 879 | More than 70% better PassMark score | |||
| 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 | |||
| More texture mapping units | 40 | vs | 16 | 24 more texture mapping units | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 14.43 GPixel/s | vs | 8.23 GPixel/s | More than 75% higher pixel rate | |||
| 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 | |||
| Better fire strike factor score | 26.99 | vs | 12.59 | Around 2.2x better fire strike factor score | |||
| Better face detection score | 38.06 mPixels/s | vs | 22.54 mPixels/s | Around 70% better face detection score | |||
| Higher BioShock infinite framerate | 28.4 fps | vs | 13.5 fps | More than 2x higher BioShock infinite framerate | |||
| Higher crysis 3 framerate | 14 fps | vs | 6.3 fps | Around 2.2x higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
| Higher thief framerate | 18.4 | vs | 9.1 | More than 2x higher thief framerate | |||
| Slightly 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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