AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660 +185%

5.027 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce GTX 1660 +312%

5414

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 1660

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Mar 2019

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1530 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

192.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

22

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1408

64

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.68 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

157.1 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

10.05 TFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.027 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

157.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU116

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

TU116-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

284 mm²

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 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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