NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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 FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 10 month(s) later
11.3x more texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
71.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2513 vs 35
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 226 vs 188

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 12 May 2003
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2513 vs 35
PassMark - G2D Mark	226 vs 188

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2513

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

226

188

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	2513	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	226	188
Geekbench - OpenCL	9697
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 FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Rankine
Code name	GM107	NV35
Launch date	12 March 2014	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	940	937
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,155 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	135 million
Core clock speed		400 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
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	DDR3 or GDDR5
Memory clock speed		700 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