GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7850, which features a clock speed of 860 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1200 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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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 1070 Ti		19808 points
Radeon HD 7850		5200 points
	Difference: 14608 (281%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be 71% faster than the Radeon HD 7850 in general, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 108544 (71%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti should be much (about 344%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 189224 (344%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 274%) more effective at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7850, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 75328 (274%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.