NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Max-Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7850
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2023
Mar 2012
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
930 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1455 MHz
—
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
16GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
76
—
Shading Units
9728
1024
TMUs
304
64
ROPs
112
32
Tensor Cores
304
—
RT Cores
76
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
64 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
163.0 GPixel/s
27.52 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
442.3 GTexel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
28.31 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
28.31 TFLOPS
1.761 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
442.3 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD103
Pitcairn
GPU Variant
GN21-X11
Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062)
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
4 nm
28 nm
Transistors
45.9 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
379 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
80W
130W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.9
—
Shader Model
6.7
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,334
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
325
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.