Graphics card comparison
GeForce GTX 750 vs Radeon HD 7850
Nvidia
GeForce GTX 750
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 18 Feb 2014
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VS
AMD
Radeon HD 7850
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 Mar 2012
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- GeForce GTX 750100%
- Radeon HD 7850141%
Relative performance
Gaming performance index
- GeForce GTX 750100%
- Radeon HD 7850107%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider the GeForce GTX 750
- 75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7850 .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon HD 7850
- 7% higher gaming performance.
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
HWSpot recommends the Radeon HD 7850
The Radeon HD 7850 is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (7 combinations of games and resolutions).
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GTX 750 | Radeon HD 7850 |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (GM107-300-A2) | Pitcairn (Pitcairn PRO) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | 2,800 million |
| Shaders | 512 | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 4 | 16 |
| Core clock | 1020 MHz | 860 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | 64 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GTX 750 | Radeon HD 7850 |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 750 | Radeon HD 7850 |
|---|
| TDP | 55 watts | 130 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Feb 2014 | 5 Mar 2012 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GTX 75016.32 GP/s
- Radeon HD 785027.50 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GTX 75032.60 GT/s
- Radeon HD 785055.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GTX 75080.20 GB/s
- Radeon HD 7850154.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GTX 7501044.50 GFLOPs
- Radeon HD 78501761.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- GeForce GTX 7504830
- Radeon HD 78506820
Points (higher is better)
Game benchmarks
Battlefield 4
DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO
- GeForce GTX 75032
- Radeon HD 785041
FPS (higher is better)
Bioshock Infinite
DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA
- GeForce GTX 75041
- Radeon HD 785037
FPS (higher is better)
Hitman Absolution
DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF
- GeForce GTX 75033
- Radeon HD 785040
FPS (higher is better)
Medal Of Honor Warfighter
DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA
- GeForce GTX 75032
- Radeon HD 785035
FPS (higher is better)
Metro Last Light
DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal
- GeForce GTX 75025
- Radeon HD 785027
FPS (higher is better)
Bioshock Infinite
DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA
- GeForce GTX 75022
- Radeon HD 785023
FPS (higher is better)
Hitman Absolution
DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF
- GeForce GTX 75032
- Radeon HD 785028
FPS (higher is better)