AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

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AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X +148%

4.375 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Unknown

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1709 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

1024

Shading Units

1280

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

136.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

68.36 GFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.375 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.7 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GP104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GP104-150-KA-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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