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Radeon HD 7850 vs Radeon R9 M395X

Intro

The Radeon HD 7850 features core speeds of 860 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 M395X, which comes with a clock frequency of 723 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R9 M395X 125 Watts
Radeon HD 7850 130 Watts
Difference: 5 Watts (4%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R9 M395X should theoretically be a bit superior to the Radeon HD 7850 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 160000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 6400 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M395X should be quite a bit (more or less 68%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

Radeon R9 M395X 92544 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850 55040 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 37504 (68%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7850 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

Radeon HD 7850 27520 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M395X 23136 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 4384 (19%)

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 M395X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2012 2015
Code Name Pitcairn Pro Tonga
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 860 MHz 723 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 125 watts
Bandwidth 153600 MB/sec 160000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 55040 Mtexels/sec 92544 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 27520 Mpixels/sec 23136 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1024 2048
Texture Mapping Units 64 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2800 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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Radeon HD 7850

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Radeon R9 M395X

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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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