AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 7950 GT AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT AGP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 130W)

Score

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce 7950 GT AGP

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 7 AGP

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G71

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G71-GT2-H-N-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.278 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x Molex

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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