AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7850 and ATI Radeon HD 5830 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 25% higher boost clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 55.04 GTexel / s vs 44.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
  • 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3867 vs 1733
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 564 vs 402
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 March 2012 vs 25 February 2010
Boost clock speed 1000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate 55.04 GTexel / s vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3867 vs 1733
PassMark - G2D Mark 564 vs 402

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

  • Around 9% higher pipelines: 1120 vs 1024
  • Around 2% better floating-point performance: 1,792.0 gflops vs 1,761 gflops
  • Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 225 Watt
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Pipelines 1120 vs 1024
Floating-point performance 1,792.0 gflops vs 1,761 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7850
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3867
1733
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
564
402
Name AMD Radeon HD 7850 ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark 3867 1733
PassMark - G2D Mark 564 402
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 47.041
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1028.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 72.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 249.482
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3351
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1312 0

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7850 ATI Radeon HD 5830

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 TeraScale 2
Code name Pitcairn Cypress
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 5 March 2012 25 February 2010
Launch price (MSRP) $249
Place in performance rating 533 536
Price now $449.59
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 11.01

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,761 gflops 1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1024 1120
Stream Processors 1200
Texture fill rate 55.04 GTexel / s 44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 175 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 2,154 million
Core clock speed 800 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 210 mm 282 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11 11
OpenGL 4.5 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync