GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 7850 vs 660 among Desktop GPUs over $400

Gaming

Radeon HD 7850
5.9
GeForce GTX 660
6.6
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
5.7
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more

Graphics

Radeon HD 7850
7.5
GeForce GTX 660
7.5
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
7.3
T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor

Computing

Radeon HD 7850
6.2
GeForce GTX 660
5.8
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
5.7
Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more

Performance per Watt

Radeon HD 7850
7.6
GeForce GTX 660
7.8
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
7.0
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more

Value

Radeon HD 7850
8.1
GeForce GTX 660
8.4
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
8.1
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more

Noise and Power

Radeon HD 7850
8.1
GeForce GTX 660
9.1
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
8.3
TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more
7.2

Overall Score

Radeon HD 7850
6.9
GeForce GTX 660
7.2
GeForce GTX 560 Ti
6.5

Winner
AMD Radeon HD 7850 

GPUBoss recommends the AMD Radeon HD 7850  based on its compute performance.

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Differences What are the advantages of each

Front view of Radeon HD 7850

Reasons to consider the
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Better 3DMark06 score 20,570 vs 18,060 Around 15% better 3DMark06 score
Better CLBenchmark raytrace score 190,967 vs 95,174 More than 2x better CLBenchmark raytrace score
Higher battlefield 3 framerate 55 vs 50 10% higher battlefield 3 framerate
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Reasons to consider the
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660

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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
Slightly better 3DMark vantage graphics score 25,130 vs 23,350 Around 10% better 3DMark vantage graphics score
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

Benchmarks Real world tests of Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 660

Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 7850
249.39 mHash/s
GeForce GTX 660
66.86 mHash/s

Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 7850
45.64 mPixels/s
GeForce GTX 660
30.91 mPixels/s

T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 7850
3,351.28
GeForce GTX 660
3,359.77

Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench

Radeon HD 7850
3,717.53
GeForce GTX 660
3,718.88

Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon HD 7850
52.97
GeForce GTX 660
53.53

Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark

Radeon HD 7850
295.66
GeForce GTX 660
310.79

Thief

Radeon HD 7850
28
GeForce GTX 660
55

Battlefield 3

Radeon HD 7850
55
GeForce GTX 660
50

Reviews Word on the street

Radeon HD 7850  vs GeForce GTX 660 
9.1
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9.0
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We see very good overclocking potential for GPU clock, which is the best of all HD 7850 cards that we've reviewed so far.
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Comments

Showing 11 comments.
Davit Marmarashvili (06:12 PM, July 21, 2016)
lol, i got mine for 47$
Nhan Ho (01:53 PM, September 23, 2015)
I own both... on my I7 system, i am running the 660 Superclocked signature 2 & on my ALL AMD system, FX6350, I'm running 7850 crossfired (1 MSI twin frozr & 1 Asus CU) I picked up the 7850s for $50 & $60 =$110 total, (that was in May) I picked up the Nvidia for $70 (so of these clowns on ebay... price their used GPU's like they are only 1 month off market! you have to edumacate these idiots.... But i have to say... i'm impressed with both setups...(the twin 7850s rock my single 660) but obvious 2 660s would rock the 7850 (basically r9270s) My older system had 560TI with OC'd E8400 (ran pretty well, I was able to pick up a second 560TI for $40) so i SLI'd it....(it would run certain games better, but obviously my limitations were with the processor (bottlenecking) so i swapped it out for my Q6600, (it ran smoother, but for whatever reason my ASUS P5ND couldn't OC that chip, so i tried a Q8200 i had around... same issue) but i gave that system to my nephew... not bad system... Q6600 (stock) 8 gigs ddr 800 ram, 2 560TI SLI'd...
Joey (01:50 AM, September 22, 2015)
same i got for $90
Brandon Pang (03:59 AM, April 14, 2015)
I got my 7850 off ebay for $80
Seungjun Kim (11:38 PM, January 21, 2015)
not really nvidia isnt alway good... they make my games crash a lot so im buying a 7850 now yay
Seungjun Kim (08:43 PM, January 11, 2015)
theyre both good so no one wins
Andrein Nguyen (09:28 AM, October 8, 2014)
when you talk about gaming, nVIDIA is the best, no doubt!
Abbie Hoffman (12:45 PM, March 6, 2014)
But it really does not matter because the 660 overclocked will again pass it up. The price of the 660 is also better than the price of the 7850, So you would be dumb to by the 7850 unless you could get it for $150. But really the 7850 is not to much faster than the 650 Ti, I am going to replace my 650 Ti with a 660. Great prices on them now
Wimpy Bandit (01:18 PM, February 27, 2014)
HD 7850 is better for gaming.
Henry (02:54 AM, February 11, 2014)
and GTX 660 has dropped its price to 180 USD...
Plot (12:38 PM, August 10, 2013)
660 wins stock 7850 wins when OC'd
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