AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 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 150W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7850
1.761 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+267%
6.463 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon HD 7850
1334
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+355%
6078
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon HD 7850
325
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X
+769%
2825
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Dec 2018
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1506 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1683 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1001 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
256.3GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
1024
Shading Units
1920
64
TMUs
120
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
107.7 GPixel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
202.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
101.0 GFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.463 TFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
202.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 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 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GP104
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GP104-200-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
314 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
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
