NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
93.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2519 vs 27
Around 18% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 191

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 28 February 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2519 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 191

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2519

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

191

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	2519	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	191
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3817
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	979

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	R400
Code name	GM107	RS690
Launch date	12 March 2014	28 February 2007
Place in performance rating	918	921
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,155 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	120 million
Core clock speed		300 MHz
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
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)	9.0b
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory type	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