GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M vs GTX 850M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking566not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency10.45no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code nameGM107C67
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date12 March 2014 (10 years ago)16 November 2007 (16 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 cores640no data
Core clock speedUp to 936 MHz425 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million112 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattno data
Texture fill rate36.080.85
Floating-point processing power1.155 TFLOPSno data
ROPs162
TMUs402

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
SLI options+-

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 typeDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Standard memory configurationDDR3 or GDDR5no data
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speedUp to 2500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80.0 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs
eDP 1.2 signal supportUp to 3840x2160no data
LVDS signal supportUp to 1920x1200no data
VGA аnalog display supportUp to 2048x1536no data
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) supportUp to 3840x2160no data
HDMI+-
HDCP content protection+-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI+-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder+-
Optimus+-
Ansel+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model5.13.0
OpenGL4.52.1
OpenCL1.1N/A
Vulkan1.1.126N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2014 16 November 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm

GTX 850M has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 850M and GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 850M is a notebook card while GeForce 7150M + nForce 630M is a desktop one.


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