GeForce GT 710 vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GT 710
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 710
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GT 710
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    614%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710

111 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

Around 514% higher average synthetic 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850

The Radeon HD 7850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameGK208 ()vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size87 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs2,800 million
Shaders192vs1024
Compute Units1vs16
Core clock954 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs16vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 710Radeon HD 7850
TDP19 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date27 Mar 2014vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    3.82 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 710
    15.26 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 710
    14.40 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 710
    366.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GT 710
    1110
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)