NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 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: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), 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 GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 12 March 2014
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Around 9% higher texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
Around 9% better floating-point performance: 1,155 gflops vs 1,059 gflops
Around 56% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 979 vs 629

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,155 gflops vs 1,059 gflops
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	979 vs 629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

979

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	979
PassMark - G3D Mark		2521
PassMark - G2D Mark		225
Geekbench - OpenCL		9809
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		37.761
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		388.248
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.428
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		38.889
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		151.016
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Maxwell
Code name	GP108	GM107
Launch date	12 March 2018	12 March 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	896
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	1,155 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	640
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	36.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,870 million
CUDA cores		640
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL		1.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		DDR3 or GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA