Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce 8800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce 8800 GTX
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
G80
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
November 2006
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
575
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
128
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
155 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
36.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
768 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-