Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660 |
Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850
- 860 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Mar, 2012)This power configuration is good for up to 225 W of power draw for the former and 150 W for the latter.
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Released September, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 980 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.3 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Its clocks are essentially those of NVIDIA's reference design with a tiny 13 MHz bump.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7850 vs 660
Gaming | |
Real world tests using the latest 3D games | |
| crysis: warhead (2013), Crysis: Warhead (2012), Batman: Arkham City and 3 more | |
Benchmarks | |
Synthetic tests to measure overall performance | |
| Passmark and 3DMark Vantage Texture Fill | |
Compute Performance | |
General computing tests executed on the GPU | |
| SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4, Civilization 5 Texture Decomposition (2013) and 2 more | |
Noise and Power | |
How loud and hot does the card run idle and under load | |
| TDP, Idle Noise Level, Load Noise Level, Idle Power Consumption and 1 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Higher pixel rate | 27.5 GPixel/s | vs | 19.6 GPixel/s | More than 40% higher pixel rate | |||
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| Significantly better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | 13,200 | vs | 5,000 | Around 2.8x better SmallLuxGPU 2.0d4 score | |||
| More energy-efficient load power consumption | 271W | vs | 296W | Around 10% more energy-efficient load power consumption | |||
| More render output processors | 32 | vs | 24 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
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| Higher clock speed | 980 MHz | vs | 860 MHz | Around 15% higher clock speed | |||
| Higher effective memory clock speed | 6,008 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 25% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Better 3DMark vantage texture fill score | 65.3 | vs | 50.2 | More than 30% better 3DMark vantage texture fill score | |||
| Higher texture rate | 78.4 GTexel/s | vs | 55 GTexel/s | Around 45% higher texture rate | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,502 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 25% higher memory clock speed | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 82.5 fps | vs | 64.2 fps | Around 30% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
| Quieter idle noise level | 40.8 dB | vs | 41.5 dB | Almost the same | |||
| Slightly more texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 64 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher batman: arkham city framerate | 75 fps | vs | 62 fps | More than 20% higher batman: arkham city framerate | |||
| Better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | 288.9 | vs | 266.9 | Around 10% better civilization 5 texture decomposition (2013) score | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660
Passmark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performance
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
Crysis: Warhead (2013) 1920x1080 - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
GeForce GTX 660 | by techPowerUp!We chose Crysis 2 as a standard test for typical 3D gaming usage because it offers the following: very high power draw; high repeatability; is a current game that is supported on all cards because of its DirectX 9 roots; drivers are actively tested and optimized for it; supports all multi-GPU configurations; test runs in a relatively short time and renders a non-static scene with variable complexity.
Batman: Arkham City 1920x1200 - Extreme quality + FXAA-HIGH
SmallLux GPU 2.0d4 Measures compute performance using OpenCL to do 3D rendering
Passmark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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