Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GTX 660 OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7850
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Pitcairn
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
August 2012
Bus support
PCIe 2.1 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
888 MHz
Core clock speed
-
823 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,761 gflops
2,046 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
1152
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
130 Watt
Texture fill rate
55.04
85.25
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
5600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
179.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
12
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
3.0
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
+
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-