AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 64GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Aug 2000

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

-

64

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

NV15

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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