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GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs Radeon HD 7850
Intro
The GeForce GTX 660 Ti makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 24 Rasterization Operator Units.Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7850, which has core speeds of 860 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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130 Watts |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
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150 Watts |
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Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 7850 should in theory be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti in general. (explain)
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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153600 MB/sec |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
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144000 MB/sec |
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Texel Rate
The GeForce GTX 660 Ti should be much (approximately 86%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)| GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
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102480 Mtexels/sec |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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55040 Mtexels/sec |
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Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 7850 is quite a bit (about 25%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 660 Ti, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)| Radeon HD 7850 |
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27520 Mpixels/sec |
| GeForce GTX 660 Ti |
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21960 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
GeForce GTX 660 TiAmazon.com
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Radeon HD 7850Amazon.com
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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Specifications
| Model | GeForce GTX 660 Ti | Radeon HD 7850 |
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| Manufacturer | nVidia | AMD |
| Year | August 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 | 24 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.0 | DirectX 11.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.3 | OpenGL 4.2 |
| Power (Max TDP) | 150 watts | 130 watts |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | 5.0 |
| Bandwidth | 144000 MB/sec | 153600 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 102480 Mtexels/sec | 55040 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 21960 Mpixels/sec | 27520 Mpixels/sec |
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.
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