NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

630 points
8206 points
1202% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

12 FPS
192 FPS
180 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
95 FPS
86 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS
139 FPS
131 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
75 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

979 points
3149 points
221% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.65 points
3690.41 points
3426% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10013 points
126840 points
1166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9122 points
120026 points
1215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

32.03 GB/s
448 GB/s
1298% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W
222% significantly lower TDP
145 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

14.43 Gigapixels/s
119.9 Gigapixels/s
730% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

36.08 Gigatexels/s
299.6 Gigatexels/s
730% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
3840
499% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
120
200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
48
200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

304th of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 March
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 850M vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 850M in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5060 over the GeForce GTX 850M.

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