Radeon HD 5770 vs Radeon HD 7850

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 5770
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    245%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 145% higher average synthetic 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7850

The Radeon HD 7850 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders800vs1024
Compute Units10vs16
Core clock850 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770Radeon HD 7850
TDP108 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 5770
    2780
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)