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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
-
-