GeForce RTX 2060 vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1920vs1024
Compute Units30vs16
Core clock1365 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs120vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060Radeon HD 7850
TDP160 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better