ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs AMD Radeon HD 7790

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

AMD Radeon HD 7790

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7790 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7790 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (85W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +16%

2.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7790

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

Radeon HD 7790

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Mar 2013

Evergreen

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

14

-

1440

Shading Units

896

72

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

85W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Bonaire

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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