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GeForce GTX 850M and Quadro M520 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 850M vs Quadro M520

GeForce GTX 850M
2591
Quadro M520
1943

GeForce GTX 850M

Quadro M520


Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name
N15P-GT
GM108

Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation

Release date
March 2014
January 2017

Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
-

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)

Supplementary power connectors
-
None

SLI options
+
-

Boost clock speed
-
1019 MHz

Core clock speed
Up to 936 MHz
756 MHz

CUDA cores
640
-

Floating-point performance
1,155 gflops
-

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
1,870 million
-

Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384

Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
25 Watt

Texture fill rate
36.08
16.66

Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB

Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit

Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
5012 MHz

Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
40 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
+
-

DirectX
12 (11_0)
12

CUDA
+
5.0

OpenCL
1.1
1.2

OpenGL
4.5
4.5

Shader Model
5.1
5.0

Vulkan
1.1.126
1.1.126

3D Stereo
-
+

Ansel
+
-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-

nView Display Management
-
+

Optimus
+
+

Optimus
-
+

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-