AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 and AMD Radeon HD 7850M 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 - 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).

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

AMD Radeon HD 7850M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 675 MHz
9244.4x more texture fill rate: 249.6 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
4.8x more pipelines: 3072 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
8.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11289 vs 1373
Around 39% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 788 vs 566

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 March 2019 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed	1200 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s vs 27 GTexel / s
Pipelines	3072 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	11289 vs 1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	788 vs 566

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850M

312.5x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 12500 million
5.1x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 12500 million
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

11289

1373

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

788

566

Name	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
PassMark - G3D Mark	11289	1373
PassMark - G2D Mark	788	566
Geekbench - OpenCL	53783
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	135.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	3063.269
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	12.678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	883.876
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	10411
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	11925
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3947
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	10411

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48	AMD Radeon HD 7850M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega 10 PRO	GCN 1.0
Code name	Greenland	Heathrow
GCN generation	GCN 5.0
Launch date	19 March 2019	24 April 2012
Place in performance rating	232	238
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	1200 MHz	675 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	499.2 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	15.97 TFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	7.987 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3072	640
Pixel fill rate	83.20 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	249.6 GTexel/s	27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12500 million	40 Watt
Floating-point performance		864.0 gflops
Transistor count		1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.3
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	402.4 GB/s	64 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	786 MHz (1572 MHz effective)	4000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)