NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M and NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL 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 Quadro4 900 XGL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 0 month(s) later
15x more texture fill rate: 36.08 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
503.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2519 vs 5
Around 16% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 194

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 19 February 2002
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2519 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	225 vs 194

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2519

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

225

194

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M	NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark	2519	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	225	194
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	NVIDIA Quadro4 900 XGL
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	Kelvin
Code name	GM107	NV25 A2
Launch date	12 March 2014	19 February 2002
Place in performance rating	918	915
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,155 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	36.08 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	63 million
Core clock speed		300 MHz
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 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 4x
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	8.1
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	80.0 GB / s	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Standard memory configuration	DDR3 or GDDR5
Memory clock speed		650 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