AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

Lower TDP (90W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +3%

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce GTX 950 +41%

1862

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Aug 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1024 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

768

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

GM206

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GM206-250-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 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

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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