AMD Radeon HD 7850: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7850 sales 5 March 2012 at a recommended price of $249. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 210 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 225 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 20.40 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Mining NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 7850's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

165

Perfomance to price

18.09

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Code name

Pitcairn

Type

Desktop

Design

reference

Release date

5 March 2012

Launch price (MSRP)

$249

of 14999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Price

$449.59

of 4095.95 (Quadro P6000)

Technical specs

Radeon HD 7850's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7850's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1024

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

of 2025 (Radeon Instinct Vega)

Transistor count

2,800 million

of 21100

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

225 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

55.04

of 512 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Floating-point performance

1,761 gflops

of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 7850's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus support

PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

210 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7850: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

of 32

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1200 MHz

of 14000

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7850.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Radeon HD 7850. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire

FreeSync

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7850, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

DirectX® 11

OpenGL

4.5

of 4.6

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7850. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

20.56

Unigine Heaven 4.0

634

Passmark

3838

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

5210

Mining hashrates

Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD 7850. Usually measured in megahashes per second.

Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)

249 Mh/s

Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)

12.5 Mh/s

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 7850 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

107.35 %

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

103.53 %

AMD Radeon R9 270

100.64 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7850 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 660, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.