GeForce GTX 850M and Radeon R5 230 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R5 230
GeForce GTX 850M
2591
Radeon R5 230
228
GeForce GTX 850M
Radeon R5 230
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
Caicos
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
April 2014
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
Up to 936 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,155 gflops
200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
160
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
19 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.08
5.000
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
10.67 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3 or GDDR5
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 3840x2160
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
Eyefinity
-
1
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
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
DirectX® 11
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerPlay
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-