AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +644%

13.11 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Mar 2012

Radeon Pro

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

16

-

4096

Shading Units

1024

256

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

130W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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