Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 56

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Mar 2012 Aug 2017
Generation Southern Islands Vega
Type Desktop Desktop
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 800 MHz
Base Clock 1156 MHz
Boost Clock 1471 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 HBM2
Memory Bus 256bit 2048bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 409.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 16 56
Shading Units 1024 3584
TMUs 64 224
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 4 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.52 GPixel/s 94.14 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 55.04 GTexel/s 329.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 1.761 TFLOPS 10.54 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 110.1 GFLOPS 659.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 21.09 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Vega 10
GPU Variant Pitcairn PRO(215-0828062) Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 12.5 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 495 mm²
Board Design
TDP 130W 210W
Suggested PSU 300 W 550 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy 1334 6783
3DMark Time Spy Extreme 325 3310