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Released March, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7850
- 860 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.7 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 August, 2012
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
- 823 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
6.8 Out of 10
by techPowerUp! (Sep, 2012)Here, the MSI card delivers the highest overclocked performance despite reaching lower clock speeds.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7850 vs 660 among Desktop GPUs
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Cloud Gate Factor, Sky Diver Factor and 1 more | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 32 more | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| Better 3DMark06 score | 20,570 | vs | 18,060 | Around 15% better 3DMark06 score | |||
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| Better manhattan score | 3,707.86 | vs | 3,282.26 | Around 15% better manhattan score | |||
| Slightly higher pixel rate | 27.52 GPixel/s | vs | 19.75 GPixel/s | Around 40% higher pixel rate | |||
| Higher battlefield 3 framerate | 55 | vs | 50 | 10% higher battlefield 3 framerate | |||
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| Higher effective memory clock speed | 5,600 MHz | vs | 4,800 MHz | More than 15% higher effective memory clock speed | |||
| Higher memory bandwidth | 179.2 GB/s | vs | 153.6 GB/s | More than 15% higher memory bandwidth | |||
| Higher texture rate | 79 GTexel/s | vs | 55 GTexel/s | Around 45% higher texture rate | |||
| More texture mapping units | 96 | vs | 64 | 32 more texture mapping units | |||
| Higher memory clock speed | 1,400 MHz | vs | 1,200 MHz | More than 15% higher memory clock speed | |||
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Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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