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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 7850
Intro
The Geforce GTX 670 features core speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7850, which comes with GPU core speed of 860 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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130 Watts |
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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170 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Geforce GTX 670, in theory, should be much faster than the Radeon HD 7850 in general. (explain)
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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192000 MB/sec |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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153600 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The Geforce GTX 670 should be a lot (about 86%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)| Geforce GTX 670 |
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102480 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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55040 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)| Geforce GTX 670 |
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29280 Mpixels/sec |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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27520 Mpixels/sec |
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Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Price Comparison
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Specifications
| Model | Geforce GTX 670 | Radeon HD 7850 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | ATi |
| Year | May 2012 | March 2012 |
| Code Name | GK104 | Pitcairn Pro |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Memory | 2048 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 915 MHz | 860 MHz |
| Shader Speed | 915 MHz | (N/A) MHz |
| Memory Speed | 1500 MHz (6000 MHz effective) | 1200 MHz (4800 MHz effective) |
| Unified Shaders | 1344 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 112 | 64 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.1 | DirectX 11.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.2 | OpenGL 4.2 |
| Power (Max TDP) | 170 watts | 130 watts |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Bandwidth | 192000 MB/sec | 153600 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 102480 Mtexels/sec | 55040 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 29280 Mpixels/sec | 27520 Mpixels/sec |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.
Comments
One Response to “Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 7850”I was Between GTX 670 and HD 7970 but considering that GTX 670 is using much lower power consumption and have more overclock stabillity than HD 7970 was the reason that i bought GTX 670!!!
Both cards are great if you play sport/rpg/simulator/strategy games then go for AMD if you play games like Battlefield 3 or Crysis 3 or Batman Arkham city then nVidia all the way!
Moreover nVidia drivers are much better than ATi's is!