Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K) vs Radeon HD 7850

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 11 Jan 2014
Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
Radeon HD 7850
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Mar 2012
Radeon HD 7850

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7850
    316%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)

115 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7850

Around 216% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 7850
GPU NameSpectre ()vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size245 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,410 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders512vs1024
Compute Units8vs16
Core clock720 MHzvs860 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs32vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 7850
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs256 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)Radeon HD 7850
TDP15 wattsvs130 watts
Release Date11 Jan 2014vs5 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    5.76 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    27.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    23.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    55.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7850
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    737.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7850
    1761.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon R7 Graphics IGP (APU A10-7850K)
    2157
  • Radeon HD 7850
    6820

Points (higher is better)