NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and ATI Radeon HD 2400 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 13.9x more texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
  • 16x more pipelines: 640 vs 40
  • 22.2x better floating-point performance: 1,155 gflops vs 52 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
  • 21.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2519 vs 119
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 617
  • 5.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 617
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2014 vs 28 June 2007
Texture fill rate 36.08 GTexel / s vs 2.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 40
Floating-point performance 1,155 gflops vs 52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2519 vs 119
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 617

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

  • Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 45 Watt
  • Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 357 vs 225
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 357 vs 225

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2519
119
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
225
357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
617
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
617
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark 2519 119
PassMark - G2D Mark 225 357
Geekbench - OpenCL 9754
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 617
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 617
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 979

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell TeraScale
Code name GM107 RV610
Launch date 12 March 2014 28 June 2007
Place in performance rating 918 920
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

CUDA cores 640
Floating-point performance 1,155 gflops 52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 640 40
Texture fill rate 36.08 GTexel / s 2.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 180 million
Core clock speed 650 MHz

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 80.0 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 64 Bit
Memory type DDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 or GDDR5
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz

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