Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 260X

Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon R7 260X
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Oct 2013
Radeon R7 260X

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7850
    108%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Gaming performance index

  • Radeon HD 7850
    115%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

15% higher gaming 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 260X

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 game benchmark suite used (7 combinations of games and resolutions).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R7 260X
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)vsBonaire (Bonaire XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1024vs896
Compute Units16vs14
Core clock860 MHzvs1100 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs56

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R7 260X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R7 260X
TDP130 wattsvs115 watts
Release Date5 Mar 2012vs8 Oct 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    61.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260X
    104.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260X
    1971.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820
  • Radeon R7 260X
    6260

Points (higher is better)

Game benchmarks

Battlefield 4

DX11, Ultra Quality,2x MSAA,16x AF, HBAO

  • Radeon HD 7850
    41
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra Quality,DDOD, FX AA

  • Radeon HD 7850
    37
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • Radeon HD 7850
    40
  • Radeon R7 260X
    33

FPS (higher is better)

Medal Of Honor Warfighter

DX11, Ultra Quality, 4xMSAA

  • Radeon HD 7850
    35
  • Radeon R7 260X
    29

FPS (higher is better)

Metro Last Light

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

  • Radeon HD 7850
    27
  • Radeon R7 260X
    26

FPS (higher is better)

Bioshock Infinite

DX11, Ultra, DDOD, FXAA

  • Radeon HD 7850
    23
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

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

  • Radeon HD 7850
    28
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)