AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 112.2GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +37%

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce GTX 960 +74%

2283

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jan 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

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

37.70 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 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

GM206

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-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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