GeForce 800M: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
GeForce 800M provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 1.08% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 800M sales 17 March 2014. This is a Fermi 2.0 architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 1 GB of DDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 15 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 800M: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 1099 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Power efficiency | 5.79 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014) | |
| GPU code name | GF117 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 17 March 2014 (11 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 800M's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 800M's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 48 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 738 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 585 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 5.904 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.1417 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 8 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 64 KB | |
| L2 Cache | 128 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 800M and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 800M: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 900 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 14.4 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 800M. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
Supported technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce 800M. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
| GPU Boost | 2.0 | |
| Optimus | + | |
| GameWorks | + |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 800M, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 2.1 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 800M. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
Send your test results of GeForce 800M.
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 800M is Radeon R5 M315, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 800M:
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 800M according to our statistics.
