GeForce GTX 850M and GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 850M
GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 6 GB
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
N17P-G1 Max-Q
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2014
May 2017
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1341 - 1480 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 936 MHz
1063 - 1265 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,155 gflops
3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
16 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
4,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
60 - 70 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.08
118.4
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
6.144 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
192.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3 or GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 3840x2160
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12.0
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
+
Ansel
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-
VR Ready
-
+