AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

AMD Radeon HD 6530

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6530 's Advantages

Lower TDP (39W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +238%

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

0.52 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

Radeon HD 6530

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

May 2011

Southern Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

5

-

1024

Shading Units

400

64

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.00 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

520.0 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

39W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Redwood

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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