GeForce GTX 850A vs GeForce GTX 960A

GeForce GTX 850A
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 17 Mar 2014
GeForce GTX 850A
GeForce GTX 960A
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 960A

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850A

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960A

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 850AGeForce GTX 960A
GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GT-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GX-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders640vs640
Compute Units5vs5
Core clock902 MHzvs1029 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 850AGeForce GTX 960A
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 850AGeForce GTX 960A
TDP45 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date17 Mar 2014vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 850A
    14.43 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 960A
    16.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 850A
    36.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 960A
    41.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 850A
    28.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 960A
    80.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 850A
    1154.60 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 960A
    1317.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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