NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs AMD Radeon HD 7950
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and AMD Radeon HD 7950 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
- 6.7x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 300 Watt
- Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 vs 31 January 2012 |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 300 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7950
- Around 34% higher boost clock speed: 1250 MHz vs 936 MHz
- 2.4x more texture fill rate: 89.6 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s
- 2.8x more pipelines: 1792 vs 640
- 2.4x better floating-point performance: 2,867 gflops vs 1,198 gflops
- Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
- 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 7988 vs 3857
- 2.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 7988 vs 3857
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 2957
- Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 2957
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Boost clock speed | 1250 MHz vs 936 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 89.6 GTexel / s vs 37.44 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1792 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 2,867 gflops vs 1,198 gflops |
| Maximum memory size | 3 GB vs 2 GB |
| Benchmarks | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 7988 vs 3857 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 7988 vs 3857 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 vs 2957 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 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 Radeon HD 7950
| 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) |
|
|
| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon HD 7950 |
|---|---|---|
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1050 | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 551 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 3857 | 7988 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 3857 | 7988 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 2957 | 3699 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 2957 | 3699 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3351 | 3359 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3351 | 3359 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 82144 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 63.74 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1177.395 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 5.685 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 69.23 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 343.81 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 1914 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A | AMD Radeon HD 7950 | |
|---|---|---|
Essentials |
||
| Architecture | Maxwell | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM107 | Tahiti |
| Launch date | 17 March 2014 | 31 January 2012 |
| Place in performance rating | 517 | 519 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Design | AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | |
Technical info |
||
| Boost clock speed | 936 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 902 MHz | |
| Floating-point performance | 1,198 gflops | 2,867 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 640 | 1792 |
| Texture fill rate | 37.44 GTexel / s | 89.6 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Transistor count | 1,870 million | 4,313 million |
| Compute units | 28 | |
| Stream Processors | 1792 | |
Video outputs and ports |
||
| Display Connectors | No outputs | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort |
| DisplayPort support | ||
| Dual-link DVI support | ||
| Eyefinity | ||
| HDMI | ||
| Number of Eyefinity displays | 6 | |
| VGA | ||
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
||
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | |
API support |
||
| DirectX | 12.0 (11_0) | 11 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.5 |
Memory |
||
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 3 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 28.8 GB / s | 240 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 384 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 1800 MHz | 1250 MHz |
| Memory type | DDR3 | GDDR5 |
Technologies |
||
| AMD Eyefinity | ||
| AppAcceleration | ||
| CrossFire | ||
| FreeSync | ||
| PowerTune | ||
| ZeroCore | ||
Navigation
Choose a GPU
Compare videocards
Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A with others
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
ATIRadeon X1950 PRO
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
NVIDIAQuadro FX 3500M
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
AMDRadeon HD 7950
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
AMDRadeon Sky 500
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
NVIDIAGRID M60-1Q
NVIDIAGeForce GTX 850A vs
AMDRadeon Pro 5500 XT
