GeForce GTX 1060 vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    254%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 154% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

The GeForce GTX 1060 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameGP106 (GP106-400-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size200 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors4,400 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1280vs1024
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock1506 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1060Radeon HD 7850
TDP120 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date10 Jul 2016vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 1060
    17380
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)