NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 289W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 295

0.596 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +195%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 295

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Jan 2009

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

30

SM Count

-

240

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

28

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

46.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

596.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

74.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

289W

TDP

130W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

Pitcairn

G200-401-B3

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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