NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +550%

7.516 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

10

GeForce GTX 850M +120%

22

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

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GeForce GTX 850M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.43 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.08 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1155 GFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.08 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GM107

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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