GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7850, which features GPU core speed of 860 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1024 Stream Processors, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

GeForce GTX 1060		311 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 140 (82%)

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 1060		12359 points
Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 7159 (138%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1060 is 28% faster than the Radeon HD 7850 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 43008 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be much (more or less 119%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 65440 (119%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 is superior to the Radeon HD 7850, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 44768 (163%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster 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 figure is worked out 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.