Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Jan 2013
Generation Southern Islands Sea Islands
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1250 MHz
Base Clock 850 MHz
Boost Clock 925 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 3GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 384bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 28
Shading Units 1024 1792
TMUs 64 112
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.52 GPixel/s 29.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 55.04 GTexel/s 103.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.761 TFLOPS 3.315 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 110.1 GFLOPS 828.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Tahiti
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 4.313 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 352 mm²
Board Design
TDP 130W 200W
Suggested PSU 300 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 5.1