NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 64% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 936 MHz
2627.4x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 17 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 936 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Around 8% higher core clock speed: 902 MHz vs 832 MHz
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	902 MHz vs 832 MHz
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
Geekbench - OpenCL	41523
PassMark - G3D Mark		1050
PassMark - G2D Mark		551
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Maxwell
Code name	GA107S	GM107
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	17 March 2014
Place in performance rating	520	517
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	936 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz	902 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	640
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	37.44 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance		1,198 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		45 Watt
Transistor count		1,870 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR3