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    GeForce GTX 850M vs GeForce GTX 950M

    GeForce GTX 850M
    Memory: 2048Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 12 Mar 2014
    GeForce GTX 850M
    GeForce GTX 950M
    Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
    Release date: 13 Mar 2015
    GeForce GTX 950M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 850MGeForce GTX 950M
    GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GT-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size148 mm²vs148 mm²
    Transistors1,870 millionvs1,870 million
    Shaders640vs640
    Compute Units5vs5
    Core clock902 MHzvs993 MHz
    ROPs16vs16
    TMUs40vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 850MGeForce GTX 950M
    Memory TypeDDR3vsDDR3
    Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1001 MHz
    2002 MHz effective    		vs900 MHz
    1800 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 850MGeForce GTX 950M
    TDP45 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date12 Mar 2014vs13 Mar 2015

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      14.43 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      15.89 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      36.10 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      39.70 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      32.00 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      28.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      1154.60 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      1271.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 850M
      4420
    • GeForce GTX 950M
      4410

    Points (higher is better)

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