NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 2 month(s) later
26.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 24
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
10.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1050 vs 104
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 320

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 9 January 2008
Pipelines	640 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050 vs 104
PassMark - G2D Mark	551 vs 320

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	25 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1050

104

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

551

320

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050	104
PassMark - G2D Mark	551	320
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A	NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GE
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell
Code name	GM107	MCP79Mx + NB9M
Launch date	17 March 2014	9 January 2008
Place in performance rating	507	504
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	936 MHz
Core clock speed	902 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,198 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	24
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	25 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		1