Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GTX 280 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GTX 280
1338
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 280
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
GT200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2008
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
6-pin & 8-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
-
602 MHz
CUDA cores
-
240
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
622.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
240
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
236 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
55.04
48.2 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1107 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
141.7 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDTVDual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DisplayPort support
-
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-