GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs Radeon HD 7850

GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 9 Jul 2019
GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2070 Super

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

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 2070 Super .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 2070 Super

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2070 Super

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperRadeon HD 7850
GPU NameTU104 (TU104-410-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size545 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors13,600 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders2560vs1024
Compute Units40vs16
Core clock1605 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs64vs32
TMUs160vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperRadeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size8192 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2070 SuperRadeon HD 7850
TDP175 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date9 Jul 2019vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    113.30 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    283.20 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    448.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2070 Super
    9060.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better