AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

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

4864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +1053%

20.31 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon HD 7850

1312

GeForce RTX 3070 +942%

13673

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Sep 2020

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 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

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1024

Shading Units

5888

64

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

220W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

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

-

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.6

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