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Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GTX 590 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7850 vs GeForce GTX 590

Radeon HD 7850
3976
GeForce GTX 590
3441

Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 590


Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name
Pitcairn
GF110

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
March 2012
March 2011

Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
Two 8-pin

SLI options
-
+

Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-

Core clock speed
-
607 MHz

CUDA cores
-
1024

Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
2x 1,244.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm

Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1024

Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
365 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature
-
97 °C

Texture fill rate
55.04
77.7 billion/sec

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)

Memory bus width
256 Bit
768-bit (384-bit per GPU)

Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
1707 MHz

Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
327.7 GB/s

Shared memory
-
-

Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort

Multi monitor support
-
+

Eyefinity
1
-

HDMI
+
+

Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536

DisplayPort support
-
-

Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal

DirectX
12
12 (11_0)

CUDA
-
+

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
1.2
1.1

OpenGL
4.6
4.2

Shader Model
5.1
5.1

Vulkan
+
N/A

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
1
-

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
1
-

HD3D
-
-

PowerTune
-
-

TrueAudio
-
-

ZeroCore
-
-