NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.6x more core clock speed: 1740 MHz vs 675 MHz
2115.6x more texture fill rate: 57.12 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 651 vs 566
3.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4984 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 Jun 2022 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1740 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	57.12 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	651 vs 566
PassMark - G3D Mark	4984 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Around 25% higher pipelines: 640 vs 512
Around 88% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 75 Watt
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Pipelines	640 vs 512
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

651

566

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4984

1373

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G2D Mark	651	566
PassMark - G3D Mark	4984	1373
Geekbench - OpenCL	24891

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU117	Heathrow
Launch date	28 Jun 2022	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	232	231
Type		Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1740 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	57.12 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	3.656 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1.828 TFLOPS
Pipelines	512	640
Pixel fill rate	28.56 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	57.12 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Single-slot
Height	18 mm, 0.7 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	69 mm, 2.7 inches
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0