NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.80GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M +208%

1.155 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2009

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

128

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

G92

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

Maxwell

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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