
GeForce GTX 850M and Radeon R7 240 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon R7 240
GeForce GTX 850M
2591
Radeon R7 240
930
GeForce GTX 850M
Radeon R7 240
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
N15P-GT
Oland
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2014
October 2013
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
N/A
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
780 MHz
Core clock speed
Up to 936 MHz
-
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,155 gflops
499.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
320
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
36.08
14.00
Memory type
DDR3, GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
Up to 2500 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80.0 GB/s
72 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
-
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® 12
CUDA
+
-
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.1.126
-
Ansel
+
-
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
-
1
DDMA audio
-
+
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
-
1
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-
ZeroCore
-
-