AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 130W)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 +48%

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 560 +36%

1788

Radeon HD 7850

1312

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2012

Polaris

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

16

Compute Units

16

1024

Shading Units

1024

64

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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