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Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 7850
Intro
The Geforce GTX 670 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 1344 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.Compare that to the Radeon HD 7850, which comes with a core clock frequency of 860 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1200 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.
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 670 |
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7351 points |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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5200 points |
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Ethereum Mining Hash Rate
| Geforce GTX 670 |
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13 Mh/s |
| Radeon HD 7850 |
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13 Mh/s |
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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
Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 670 should in theory be quite a bit superior to 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 is a lot (about 86%) more effective 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 using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 670 is superior to the Radeon HD 7850, but only just. (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 | AMD |
| Year | May 2012 | March 2012 |
| Code Name | GK104 | Pitcairn Pro |
| Memory | 2048 MB | 2048 MB |
| Core Speed | 915 MHz | 860 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 6000 MHz | 4800 MHz |
| Power (Max TDP) | 170 watts | 130 watts |
| Bandwidth | 192000 MB/sec | 153600 MB/sec |
| Texel Rate | 102480 Mtexels/sec | 55040 Mtexels/sec |
| Pixel Rate | 29280 Mpixels/sec | 27520 Mpixels/sec |
| Unified Shaders | 1344 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units | 112 | 64 |
| Render Output Units | 32 | 32 |
| Bus Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 3540 million | 2800 million |
| Bus | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX Version | DirectX 11.0 | DirectX 11.1 |
| OpenGL Version | OpenGL 4.2 | OpenGL 4.2 |
Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends 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 max fill rate.
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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.
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Comments
2 Responses to “Geforce GTX 670 vs Radeon HD 7850”I have recently bought GTX 670...due to HD 7850 wasn't enough powerfull to max out my brand new Crysis 3 game!
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!
So I bought the HD 7850 and I overclocked it to 1050 mhz Core Clock and 1450 mhz Memory Clock WITHOUT any changes to power! This GPU is simply a beast if you OC it. Its even better than an R9 270X now. I deffinately recommend you to buy it. It is really cheap and it can run Fallout 4 on max setting easily!