AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs AMD Radeon HD 7990

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

AMD Radeon HD 7990

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990 +132%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

Radeon HD 7990

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Apr 2013

Southern Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

32

-

1024

Shading Units

2048

64

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

130W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Malta

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

365 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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