NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 4 GB 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

1001 points
58% significantly better overall score
630 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS
13 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

17 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
9 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1804 points
84% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
979 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.61 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
104.65 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

13861 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
9545 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16496 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16483 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

15820 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
10013 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16599 points
81% significantly 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

60 W
45 W
33% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

36.8 Gigapixels/s
155% significantly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

73.6 Gigatexels/s
103% significantly higher texture rate
36.08 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1024
60% significantly more shading units
640

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

64
60% significantly more texture mapping units
40

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
100% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 586
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 January
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

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce GTX 850M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 965M GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 850M in gaming.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 850M has a slightly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 965M at 60 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 965M over the GeForce GTX 850M.

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