NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1178MHz vs 936MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +227%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 800A

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

936 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

640

Shading Units

1664

40

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

64

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1198 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

37.44 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

148W

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No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

GM204

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Maxwell

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.0

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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