NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 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

575 points
630 points
9% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

11 FPS
12 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

101.04 points
104.65 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

9777 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
9545 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10170 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9069 points
9370 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9820 points
10013 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8825 points
9122 points
3% slightly 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

28.8 GB/s
32.03 GB/s
11% slightly higher memory bandwidth

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

17.98 Gigapixels/s
24% slightly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

44.96 Gigatexels/s
24% 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

315th of 586
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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 950M vs GeForce GTX 850M benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 850M graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 950M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 950M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 850M is better than the GeForce GTX 950M.

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