AMD Radeon HD 7850 Vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 - Technical City

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	509	448
Place by popularity	not in top-100	19
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.61	10.02
Power efficiency	5.52	12.39
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Pitcairn	GP107
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Design	reference	no data
Release date	5 March 2012 (14 years ago)	25 October 2016 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$249	$109

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

GTX 1050 has 284% better value for money than HD 7850.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1024	640
Core clock speed	no data	1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	1000 MHz	1392 MHz
Number of transistors	2,800 million	3,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	130 Watt	75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	no data	97 °C
Texture fill rate	55.04	58.20
Floating-point processing power	1.761 TFLOPS	1.862 TFLOPS
ROPs	32	32
TMUs	64	40
L1 Cache	256 KB	240 KB
L2 Cache	512 KB	1024 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support	PCIe 2.1 x16	PCIe 3.0
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	210 mm	145 mm
Height	no data	4.38" (11.1 cm)
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)	no data	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
SLI	no data	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	112 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	DP 1.4, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support	no data	+
Eyefinity	+	-
HDMI	+	+
HDCP	-	2.2
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire	+	-
FreeSync	+	-
GameStream	-	+
GPU Boost	no data	3.0
VR Ready	no data	+
Ansel	-	+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	+	1.2.131
CUDA	-	+