NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP 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

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
6x more texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 75 Watt
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
14.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2521 vs 177
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 199

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 2 February 2006
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2521 vs 177
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 199

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2521

177

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

199

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	2521	177
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	199
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
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	979

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Curie
Code name	GM107	G71
Launch date	12 March 2014	2 February 2006
Place in performance rating	896	899
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,155 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s	6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	278 million
Core clock speed		375 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	AGP 8x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	DDR3 or GDDR5
Memory clock speed		1200 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