Radeon RX 470 vs Radeon HD 7850

Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon RX 470
    244%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon RX 470

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 144% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

The Radeon RX 470 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size232 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors5,700 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders2048vs1024
Compute Units32vs16
Core clock926 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs128vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon RX 470Radeon HD 7850
TDP120 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date29 Jun 2016vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon RX 470
    16690
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)