NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD FirePro W7000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and AMD FirePro W7000 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • 7.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 350 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 542
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 March 2014 vs 13 June 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 350 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 551 vs 542

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro W7000

  • Around 5% higher core clock speed: 950 MHz vs 902 MHz
  • 2x more texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
  • 4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4247 vs 1050
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6475 vs 3857
  • Around 68% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6475 vs 3857
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3714 vs 2957
  • Around 26% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3714 vs 2957
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 950 MHz vs 902 MHz
Texture fill rate 76 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 640
Floating-point performance 2,432 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4247 vs 1050
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6475 vs 3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6475 vs 3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3714 vs 2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3714 vs 2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359 vs 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359 vs 3351

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: AMD FirePro W7000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1050
4247
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
551
542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3857
6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3857
6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2957
3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2957
3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3351
3359
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A AMD FirePro W7000
PassMark - G3D Mark 1050 4247
PassMark - G2D Mark 551 542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3857 6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3857 6475
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2957 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2957 3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351 3359
Geekbench - OpenCL 17788
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 52.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1148.367
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 85.472
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 268.49

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A AMD FirePro W7000

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell GCN 1.0
Code name GM107 Pitcairn
Launch date 17 March 2014 13 June 2012
Place in performance rating 513 514
Type Desktop Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 936 MHz
Core clock speed 902 MHz 950 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,198 gflops 2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 640 1280
Texture fill rate 37.44 GTexel / s 76 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt 350 Watt
Transistor count 1,870 million 2,800 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count 4
Dual-link DVI support
StereoOutput3D

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Length 242 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.8 GB / s 153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5