NVIDIA GeForce 845M
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M is a graphics card released on February 7, 2015. It has 2 GB of video memory on a 64-bit bus and a boost clock of 863 MHz. It scores 1,500 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan 1.3 and CUDA compute capability 5.0.
Depth: 23 recorded fields, 10 features, 5 PassMark workloads
Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, NVIDIA Developer: Video Encode and Decode GPU Support Matrix and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M scores 1,500 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 61% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #1,168), measured across 95 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 206.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 845M averages DirectX 9 25 fps, DirectX 10 7 fps, DirectX 11 10 fps, DirectX 12 8 fps and GPU Compute 783 ops/s, across 95 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce 845M states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, first benchmarked on 2015-02-03. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M runs at a base clock of 863 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M is equipped with 2 GB of memory and uses a 64-bit memory bus.
Board and power
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M was released on February 7, 2015.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, Vulkan 1.3 and CUDA compute capability 5.0.
Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce 845M.
Features
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M has 1 supported feature recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.
Compute and AI
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Supported: CUDA Compute capability 5.0Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Not listed (2)
No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce 845M supports Tensor cores and NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M supports CUDA (Compute capability 5.0) under Compute and AI.
Media engine
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC). It does not support hardware encode for HEVC (H.265) and AV1 and decode for HEVC (H.265), AV1 and VP9.
| Codec | Encode | Decode |
|---|---|---|
| H.264 (AVC) | Supported4:4:4: Yes | Supported |
| HEVC (H.265) | Not supported | Not supported |
| AV1 | Not supported | Not supported |
| VP9 | Not stated by the vendor | Not supported |
supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor
Media engines recorded for the NVIDIA GeForce 845M: NVIDIA NVENC encoder (4th Generation, encoder engines: 1) and NVIDIA NVDEC decoder (1st Generation, decoder engines: 1).
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce 845M (Mobile).
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce 845M have?
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M has 2 GB of video memory on a 64-bit bus.
How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce 845M?
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M scores 1,500 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 61% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #1,168. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 8 fps.
Does the NVIDIA GeForce 845M support AV1 encoding?
No. Feex records AV1 hardware encoding as explicitly not supported on the NVIDIA GeForce 845M.
What is the CUDA compute capability of the NVIDIA GeForce 845M?
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M has CUDA compute capability 5.0.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA GeForce 845M use?
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA GeForce 845M released?
The NVIDIA GeForce 845M was released on February 7, 2015.