NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 RTX A500 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 7850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 54% higher boost clock speed: 1537 MHz vs 1000 MHz
1787.2x more texture fill rate: 98.37 GTexel/s vs 55.04 GTexel / s
2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 1024
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	22 Mar 2022 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s vs 55.04 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 1024
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850

Name	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7850
Geekbench - OpenCL	41518
PassMark - G3D Mark		3870
PassMark - G2D Mark		564
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1312

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 7850
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 1.0
Code name	GA107S	Pitcairn
Launch date	22 Mar 2022	5 March 2012
Place in performance rating	524	527
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Price now		$449.59
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		11.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1537 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	832 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	98.37 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	6.296 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2048	1024
Pixel fill rate	73.78 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	98.37 GTexel/s	55.04 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance		1,761 gflops
Stream Processors		1200
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		225 Watt
Transistor count		2,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
Length		210 mm
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	96.00 GB/s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz, 12 Gbps effective	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync