NVIDIA GeForce 845M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 845M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 845M

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 845M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 5 month(s) later
4.6x more core clock speed: 1071 MHz vs 235 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
12.5x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
169.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1524 vs 9
Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 213 vs 166

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 August 2015 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	1071 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1524 vs 9
PassMark - G2D Mark	213 vs 166

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

34x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 27.62 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 27.62 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 845M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1524

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

213

166

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 845M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1524	9
PassMark - G2D Mark	213	166
Geekbench - OpenCL	6112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.295
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	22.387
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	76.073
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2320
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3287
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2320
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3287
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 845M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rankine
Code name	GM108	NV31 A1
Launch date	26 August 2015	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1042	1039
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz
Core clock speed	1071 MHz	235 MHz
Floating-point performance	883.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	27.62 GTexel / s	940 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.6	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.02 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 / 128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	5012 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR3 / GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
CUDA
GeForce Experience
GPU Boost
Optimus