NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 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 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• Around 67% higher pipelines: 640 vs 384
• Around 21% better floating-point performance: 1,155 gflops vs 952.3 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.2x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 100 Watt
• Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2516 vs 2074
• Around 52% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9705 vs 6389
• Around 55% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 37.761 vs 24.415
• Around 33% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.428 vs 1.83
• Around 31% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 38.889 vs 29.702
• 2.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 151.016 vs 67.215
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 3817 vs 2664
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3685 vs 3626
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3318
• Around 43% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 3817 vs 2664
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3685 vs 3626
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3318

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

• Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 39.7 billion / sec vs 36.08 GTexel / s
• Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 349 vs 225
• Around 78% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 690.98 vs 388.248

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2516 2074
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	225 349
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	9705 6389
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	37.761 24.415
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	388.248 690.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.428 1.83
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	38.889 29.702
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	151.016 67.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3318
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3817 2664
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3685 3626
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3318

Compare specifications (specs)