Radeon HD 7850 Overview

Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Core Configuration

GPU Pitcairn
Architecture AMD_GCN_1_0
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 1024 : 64 : 32
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1761.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 2048 Mb
Memory Bus Width 256 bit
Memory Speed 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 154.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    440%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X
    403%
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    395%
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    389%
  • Radeon R9 FURY X
    380%
  • Radeon R9 FURY
    356%
  • Radeon R9 Nano
    342%
  • GeForce GTX 980
    306%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
    288%
  • GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    282%
  • GeForce GTX TITAN
    268%
  • GeForce GTX 970
    255%
  • GeForce GTX 780
    255%
  • Radeon R9 290X
    254%
  • Radeon R9 290
    235%
  • Radeon R9 380X
    221%
  • Radeon HD 6990
    195%
  • Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
    195%
  • Radeon R9 280X
    195%
  • GeForce GTX 770
    193%
  • Radeon R9 285
    185%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    173%
  • Radeon HD 7970
    169%
  • GeForce GTX 670
    163%
  • GeForce GTX 960
    162%
  • Radeon HD 7950
    156%
  • GeForce GTX 760
    155%
  • GeForce GTX 950
    144%
  • Radeon R9 270X
    143%
  • Radeon R9 270
    135%
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    130%
  • GeForce GTX 750 Ti
    129%
  • Radeon HD 7870 XT
    128%
  • GeForce GTX 580
    126%
  • Radeon R7 265
    120%
  • GeForce GTX 660
    115%
  • GeForce GTX 750
    104%
  • GeForce GTX 480
    104%
  • Radeon HD 6970
    104%
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    103%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%
  • Radeon R7 260X
    88%
  • GeForce GTX 560 Ti
    82%
  • Radeon HD 6870
    78%
  • Radeon HD 7790
    77%
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    3%

Performance summary, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon HD 7850 is a graphics card released by AMD on 5 Mar 2012. The graphics card houses the Pitcairn die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 2,800 million transistors on a 28 nm, 212 mm2 die.

Radeon HD 7850 pros and cons

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon HD 7850GeForce GTX 750Radeon R7 260XGeForce GTX 650 Ti BoostGeForce GTX 660
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Shader units1024512896768960
ROPs3216162424
Graphics processorPitcairnGM107BonaireGK106GK106
Process size28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm28 nm
Memory2048 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective)
1024 Mb GDDR5 (1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective)
2048 Mb GDDR5 (1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective)
Memory bus width256 bit128 bit128 bit192 bit192 bit
Memory bandwidth154.00 Gb/s80.20 Gb/s104.00 Gb/s144.00 Gb/s144.00 Gb/s
Release date5 Mar 201218 Feb 20148 Oct 201326 Mar 20136 Sep 2012

Benchmarks

Bioshock Infinite

  • GeForce GTX 660
    31
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    27
  • Radeon HD 7850
    23
  • GeForce GTX 750
    22
  • Radeon R7 260X
    22

FPS (higher is better)

Hitman Absolution

  • GeForce GTX 750
    32
  • Radeon HD 7850
    28
  • GeForce GTX 660
    27
  • GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    25
  • Radeon R7 260X
    23

FPS (higher is better)