NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon HD 7850
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and AMD Radeon HD 7850 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, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
- 5x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 225 Watt
- Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 vs 5 March 2012 |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 225 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 1200 MHz |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850
- Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 936 MHz
- Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 55.04 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
- Around 60% higher pipelines: 1024 vs 640
- Around 47% better floating-point performance: 1,761 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
- 3.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3885 vs 1050
- Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 567 vs 551
- Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6173 vs 3857
- Around 60% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6173 vs 3857
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3696 vs 2957
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3696 vs 2957
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| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz vs 936 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 55.04 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1024 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 1,761 gflops vs 1,198 gflops |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 3885 vs 1050 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 567 vs 551 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 6173 vs 3857 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 6173 vs 3857 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3696 vs 2957 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3696 vs 2957 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon HD 7850 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1050 | 3885 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 551 | 567 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 | 6173 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 | 6173 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2957 | 3696 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 2957 | 3696 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 | 3351 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 | 3351 |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 47.041 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1028.005 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.41 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 72.975 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 249.482 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1312 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon HD 7850 | |
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| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM107 | Pitcairn |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 | 5 March 2012 |
| Place in performance rating | 518 | 520 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | |
| Price now | $449.59 | |
| Value for money (0-100) | 11.01 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 936 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 902 MHz | |
| Floating-point performance | 1,198 gflops | 1,761 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 640 | 1024 |
| Texture fill rate | 37.44 GTexel / s | 55.04 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 225 Watt |
| Transistor count | 1,870 million | 2,800 million |
| Stream Processors | 1200 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort |
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Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Bus support | PCIe 2.1 x16 | |
| Length | 210 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 11 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 153.6 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
Technologies |
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