Graphics card overview

Radeon HD 7850

AMD

Radeon HD 7850

2048 Mb GDDR5 Released 5 Mar 2012 DESKTOP

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

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7850	GeForce GTX 750 Compare	Radeon R7 260X Compare	GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Compare	GeForce GTX 660 Compare
Shader units	1024	512	896	768	960
ROPs	32	16	16	24	24
Graphics processor	Pitcairn	GM107	Bonaire	GK106	GK106
Process size	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm	28 nm
Memory	2048 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 width	256 bit	128 bit	128 bit	192 bit	192 bit
Memory bandwidth	154.00 Gb/s	80.20 Gb/s	104.00 Gb/s	144.00 Gb/s	144.00 Gb/s
Release date	5 Mar 2012	18 Feb 2014	8 Oct 2013	26 Mar 2013	6 Sep 2012