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Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

The Radeon HD 7850 uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 860 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1200 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a speed of 1400 MHz on this particular model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 TAUs 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.

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		183 Sol/s
Radeon HD 7850		171 Sol/s
	Difference: 12 (7%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R7 370 4G		17 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7850		13 Mh/s
	Difference: 4 (31%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 370 4G		110 Watts
Radeon HD 7850		130 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically be a bit better than the Radeon HD 7850 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 25600 (17%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G should be just a bit (more or less 13%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 7360 (13%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a bit (approximately 13%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7850, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (13%)

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.

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Specifications

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Model	Radeon HD 7850	Radeon R7 370 4G
Manufacturer	AMD	AMD
Year	March 2012	June 2015
Code Name	Pitcairn Pro	Trinidad
Memory	2048 MB	4096 MB
Core Speed	860 MHz	975 MHz
Memory Speed	4800 MHz	5600 MHz
Power (Max TDP)	130 watts	110 watts
Bandwidth	153600 MB/sec	179200 MB/sec
Texel Rate	55040 Mtexels/sec	62400 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	27520 Mpixels/sec	31200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders	1024	1024
Texture Mapping Units	64	64
Render Output Units	32	32
Bus Type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
Fab Process	28 nm	28 nm
Transistors	2800 million	2080 million
Bus	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 ×16
DirectX Version	DirectX 11.1	DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 4.2	OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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