AMD Radeon VII vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1750MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 295W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon VII +663%

13.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

1.761 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon VII +609%

9307

Radeon HD 7850

1312

Radeon VII

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

Feb 2019

Release Date

Mar 2012

Vega II

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1400 MHz

Base Clock

-

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1020GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

60

Compute Units

16

3840

Shading Units

1024

240

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

112.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

420.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

26.88 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.44 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

3.360 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 20

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Vega 20 XT

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 5.1

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

13.23 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

331 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

295W

TDP

130W

600 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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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