GeForce GTX 850A vs Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS
Aggregate performance score
We've compared Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS and GeForce GTX 850A, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.
Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS outperforms GTX 850A by a whopping 323% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 413 | 803 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 20.05 | 4.22 |
| Architecture | no data | Maxwell (2014−2017) |
| GPU code name | no data | GM107 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Release date | no data (2024 years ago) | 17 March 2014 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1536 | 640 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 902 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1500 MHz | 936 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 1,870 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 40 Watt | 45 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 37.44 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 1.198 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | no data | 16 |
| TMUs | no data | 40 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | no data | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | LPDDR5x | DDR3 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 2 GB |
| Memory bus width | no data | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 8448 MHz | 900 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 28.8 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | no data |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | No outputs |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12_1 | 12 (11_0) |
| Shader Model | no data | 5.1 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.1.126 |
| CUDA | - | 5.0 |
Gaming performance
Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| Full HD | 40
+344%
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Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 11.50 | 2.72 |
| Chip lithography | 4 nm | 28 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 40 Watt | 45 Watt |
Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS has a 322.8% higher aggregate performance score, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 12.5% lower power consumption.
The Qualcomm SD X Adreno X1-85 4.6 TFLOPS is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 850A in performance tests.
Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.
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