AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7850 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
48.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3856 vs 79
Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 559 vs 308

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 March 2012 vs 17 April 2007
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3856 vs 79
PassMark - G2D Mark	559 vs 308

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

5.6x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 225 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 225 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3856

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

559

308

Name	AMD Radeon HD 7850	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
PassMark - G3D Mark	3856	79
PassMark - G2D Mark	559	308
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	47.041
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1028.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	4.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	72.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	249.482
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1312

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 7850	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Pitcairn	C78
Design	AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date	5 March 2012	17 April 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$249
Place in performance rating	526	528
Price now	$449.59
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	11.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,761 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	1024
Stream Processors	1200
Texture fill rate	55.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	225 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	210 million
Core clock speed		500 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCI
Length	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync