Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GTS 250M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTS 250M
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GTS 250M
570
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTS 250M
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GT2xx (2009−2012)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
N10E-GE
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
June 2009
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
-
SLI options
-
+
MXM Type
-
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
500 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
240 gflops
Gigaflops
-
360
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
727 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
96
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
16.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
Up to 2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMIVGALVDSSingle Link DVIDisplayPortDual Link DVI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
Power management
-
8.0
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-