NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M 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 Quadro FX 370M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 64% higher core clock speed: 902 MHz vs 550 MHz
17x more texture fill rate: 37.44 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
80x more pipelines: 640 vs 8
53.5x better floating-point performance: 1,198 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
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
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
11.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1050 vs 93
Around 65% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 334

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 15 August 2008
Core clock speed	902 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s vs 2.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 8
Floating-point performance	1,198 gflops vs 22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050 vs 93
PassMark - G2D Mark	551 vs 334

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1050

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

551

334

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A	NVIDIA Quadro FX 370M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050	93
PassMark - G2D Mark	551	334
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 Quadro FX 370M
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Tesla
Code name	GM107	G98
Launch date	17 March 2014	15 August 2008
Place in performance rating	518	516
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	936 MHz
Core clock speed	902 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,198 gflops	22.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	640	8
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s	2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	MXM-II
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR2, GDDR3
Shared memory		0