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Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

The Radeon HD 7850 features a GPU core speed of 860 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory runs at 1200 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R9 270, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon R9 270 5943 points
Radeon HD 7850 5200 points
Difference: 743 (14%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 270 15 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850 13 Mh/s
Difference: 2 (15%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7850 130 Watts
Radeon R9 270 150 Watts
Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 270 should be a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7850 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 270 179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 should be quite a bit (approximately 31%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R9 270 72000 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850 55040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 16960 (31%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 270 should be a small bit (more or less 5%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7850, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon R9 270 28800 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850 27520 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 1280 (5%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 7850 Radeon R9 270
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2012 November 2013
Code Name Pitcairn Pro Curacao Pro
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 860 MHz 900 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 153600 MB/sec 179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 55040 Mtexels/sec 72000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 27520 Mpixels/sec 28800 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 1280
Texture Mapping Units 64 80
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2800 million 2800 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon HD 7850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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