Geforce GTX 1080 Ti vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7850, which comes with clock speeds of 860 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Display Graphs

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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.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		27629 points
Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 22429 (431%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		710 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 539 (315%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 7850 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 342016 (223%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be much (more or less 502%) more effective at AF than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 276480 (502%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 102720 (373%)

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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.