AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

784 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +183%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

240

64

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GT200

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

236W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.3

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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