GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 26 Mar 2013
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    117%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    105%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

5% higher gaming performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 650 Ti Boost

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is the better performing card based on the game benchmark suite used (6 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7850
GPU NameGK106 (GK106-240-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size221 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,540 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders768vs1024
Compute Units4vs16
Core clock980 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs64vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostRadeon HD 7850
TDP134 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date26 Mar 2013vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    15.70 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    62.70 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    144.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    1505.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    5800
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    27
  • Radeon HD 7850
    23

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    25
  • Radeon HD 7850
    28

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    45
  • Radeon HD 7850
    37

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

DX11, High Quality, 2x MSAA, 16x AF

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    38
  • Radeon HD 7850
    40

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    37
  • Radeon HD 7850
    35

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

DX11, AAA standard, 16xAF, Motion Blur normal, Tesselation normal

  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    28
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27

FPS (higher is better)