AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

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AMD Radeon HD 7850 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 215W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2080 +471%

10.07 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce RTX 2080 +734%

10952

Radeon HD 7850

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GeForce RTX 2080

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2018

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1515 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1710 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

2944

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

368

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

109.4 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

314.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

20.14 TFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.07 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

314.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

TU104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

TU104-400A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

13.6 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

545 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

215W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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