NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, 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

584 points
630 points
7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

13 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
9 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1155 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
979 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

102.79 points
104.65 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11144 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
9545 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11550 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10627 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11127 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9592 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 points

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

80.19 GB/s
150% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32.03 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
45 W
66% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.36 Gigapixels/s
20% slightly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

43.4 Gigatexels/s
20% slightly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
Identical
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
Identical
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

311th of 586
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GTX 860M vs GeForce GTX 850M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 850M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 860M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 860M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 850M is faster than the GeForce GTX 860M.

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