NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 80% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 675 MHz
  • 6.5x more texture fill rate: 176.5 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
  • 6.5x better floating-point performance: 5,648 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 8008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
  • 7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9937 vs 1373
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 June 2017 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate 176.5 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 640
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops vs 864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 9937 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 566 vs 428
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 40 Watt vs 115 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 566 vs 428

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
9937
1373
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
428
566
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark 9937 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark 428 566
Geekbench - OpenCL 41185
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 214.123
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2293.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 12.704
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 139.717
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 692.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 8048
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 14915
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 8902
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 8048
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4887

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP104 Heathrow
Launch date 27 June 2017 24 April 2012
Place in performance rating 233 231
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1379 MHz
Core clock speed 1215 MHz 675 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,648 gflops 864.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 640
Texture fill rate 176.5 GTexel / s 27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 115 Watt 40 Watt
Transistor count 7,200 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
G-SYNC support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 256.3 GB / s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 8008 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

Multi Monitor
Multi-Projection
VR Ready