Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R9 380

Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 7850
    100%
  • Radeon R9 380
    180%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 80% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

The Radeon R9 380 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 380
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1024vs1792
Compute Units16vs28
Core clock860 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 380
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 7850Radeon R9 380
TDP130 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date5 Mar 2012vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820
  • Radeon R9 380
    12280

Points (higher is better)