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AMD Radeon HD 7850: specs and benchmarks
Price now
299$
Games supported
72%
- Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
- Core clock speed 0
- Max video memory 2048 MB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 1200
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2012
Performance
13.07
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 dual-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
13.07%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon HD 7850's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 332 | |
| Value for money | 4.04 | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2012−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Pitcairn | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Design | reference | |
| Release date | 5 March 2012 (10 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | |
| Price now | $299 (1.2x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Radeon HD 7850's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores | 1024 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Boost clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Number of transistors | 2,800 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 225 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 55.04 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| 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 | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
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 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
| Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7850. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort | |
| Eyefinity | 1 | |
| HDMI | + | |
| DisplayPort support | - |
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.
| AppAcceleration | - | |
| CrossFire | 1 | |
| Enduro | - | |
| FreeSync | 1 | |
| HD3D | - | |
| PowerTune | - | |
| TrueAudio | - | |
| ZeroCore | - |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 7850, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | DirectX® 11 | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | + | |
| Mantle | - |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7850. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- Unigine Heaven 4.0
- Passmark
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Unigine Heaven 4.0
This is an old DirectX 11 benchmark, a newer version of Unigine 3.0 with relatively small differences. It displays a fantasy medieval town sprawling over several flying islands. The benchmark is still sometimes used, despite its significant age, as it was released back in 2013.
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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 |
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon HD 7850 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 7850 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7850 from NVIDIA is P106-100, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
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