NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 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 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• 3.3x more texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 10.8 billion / sec
• 6.7x more pipelines: 640 vs 96
• 4.5x better floating-point performance: 1,155 gflops vs 258.05 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• 5.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2521 vs 478
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 91
• 4.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9809 vs 2171
• 7.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 37.761 vs 4.85
• Around 98% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 388.248 vs 195.796
• 4.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.428 vs 0.561
• 4.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 38.889 vs 9.109
• 9x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 151.016 vs 16.727
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3817 vs 960
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3685 vs 2210
• Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 2701
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3817 vs 960
• Around 67% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3685 vs 2210
• Around 24% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 2701

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

• Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2521 478
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	225 91
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	9809 2171
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	37.761 4.85
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	388.248 195.796
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.428 0.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	38.889 9.109
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	151.016 16.727
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 2701
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 960
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 2210
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 2701

Compare specifications (specs)