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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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Gaming, Benchmarks, Compute Performance and Noise and Power | |
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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 render output processors | 32 | vs | 24 | 8 more render output processors | |||
| More energy-efficient load power consumption | 271W | vs | 296W | Around 10% more energy-efficient load power consumption | |||
| More energy-efficient idle power consumption | 107W | vs | 110W | Around 5% more energy-efficient idle power consumption | |||
| Wider memory bus | 256 bit | vs | 192 bit | Around 35% wider memory bus | |||
| Slightly higher civilization 5 framerate | 79.1 fps | vs | 72.2 fps | Around 10% higher civilization 5 framerate | |||
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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 | |||
| Slightly more texture mapping units | 80 | vs | 64 | 16 more texture mapping units | |||
| Quieter idle noise level | 40.8 dB | vs | 41.5 dB | Almost the same | |||
| 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
GeForce GTX 660 | by justing6 (Jan, 2013)While attatched by an HDMI cable and powered by an external power supply, my laptop still gets a 7.9 for video and this 3DMark score.
3DMark Vantage (Texture Fill) Industry standard benchmark that tests DirectX performance
GeForce GTX 660 | by SullyI haven't even seen one hiccup and I ran it through 3dMark11, Furmark, Kombuster, and a few 6 hour gaming sessions.
Crysis: Warhead (2013) 1920x1080 - Enthusiast Quality + 4xAA
GeForce GTX 660 | by custom_comp (Nov, 2012)it has performed great on all the following games...Battlefield 3, Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Aliens vs Predators, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Crysis 2, Boarder Lands 1&2, World of Warcraft and a long list of others.
Batman: Arkham City 1920x1200 - Extreme quality + FXAA-HIGH
GeForce GTX 660 | by Andrew-Smith (Jan, 2013)I am able to play every game I have at high settings (Max Payne 3, GTA4, Batman:AC) without a hiccup.
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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