NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 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. 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 69% higher core clock speed: 1140 MHz vs 675 MHz
4748.1x more texture fill rate: 128.2 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
6.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8622 vs 1373

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 April 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1140 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	128.2 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	8622 vs 1373

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 60 Watt
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Around 55% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 566 vs 364

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 60 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	566 vs 364

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

8622

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

364

566

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	8622	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	364	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	53834
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	195.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1919.95
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	14.6
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	94.964
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	492.867
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	12301
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	4912

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU116	Heathrow
Launch date	23 April 2019	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	333	224
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1335 MHz
Core clock speed	1140 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	128.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	8.202 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	4.101 TFLOPS
Pipelines	1536	640
Pixel fill rate	64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	128.2 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	60 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	6600 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized	large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	1.2
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.4
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz (12000 MHz effective)	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0