NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960M +30%

1.505 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960M +45%

32

GeForce GTX 850M

22

GeForce GTX 960M

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GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1097 MHz

Base Clock

-

1176 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

18.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

47.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.505 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

47.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM107

N16P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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