NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1530 MHz vs 675 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2x more memory clock speed: 8004 MHz vs 4000 MHz
8.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11659 vs 1373
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 776 vs 566

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 March 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1530 MHz vs 675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz vs 4000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11659 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	776 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

3x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 120 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11659

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

776

566

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	11659	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	776	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	58014
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	189.842
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1902.867
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	13.408
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	116.183
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	875.838
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3359
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	14998
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3359
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1065

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU116	Heathrow
Launch date	14 March 2019	24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$219
Place in performance rating	258	257
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	6,600 million	1,500 million
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Pipelines		640
Texture fill rate		27 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort count	1
DisplayPort support
HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Memory clock speed	8004 MHz	4000 MHz
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		64 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory type		GDDR5
Shared memory		0